[puduvailug] Fwd: [fosscomm] Open document standards mandatory in Hungary government

From: Shrinivasan T <tshrinivasan@xxxxxxxxx>
To: "puduvailug@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <puduvailug@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "vlug@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <vlug@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2012 06:03:21 +0530

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From: "Guru गुरु" <Guru@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: 8 Jan 2012 13:25
Subject: [fosscomm] Open document standards mandatory in Hungary government
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Hungary's public administrations will by default use open document
standards for their electronic documents, as of April this year, the
government ministers agreed on 23 December, and all public organisations
are encouraged to move to open source office tools. *Hungary's government
also in December decided to cancel the funding of proprietary office
suite licences for all schools.*

The minister's decision on open standards instructs public
administrations to save their documents, spreadsheets and presentations
only in standard formats that are accepted by international standard
organisations. Public administrations are required to be able to receive
and handle documents sent to them, and all official documents must be
made available in a open standard format.

Except for the ministry of Defense, all ministries must complete the
transition to using open standards before the end of March, the IT news
site HWSW reported on Monday. Vilmos Vályi-Nagy, Deputy State Secretary
of IT, quoted by IT news site IT Cafe, explained that the institutions
have been told of the decision months before and that many are already
preparing for the changes.

The government now recommends that public organisations switch to using
open source office suites, reports HWSW. If not, the institutes will
have to explain the technical and economic reasons why they depend on
proprietary office tools.

School licences
The government in December also decided not to renew a proprietary
office software licence deal for all of the country's schools. In a
statement on Tisztaszoftver (Legal Software), a web site aiming to
reduce the use of unlicensed software, the ministry of Education
explains that the measure is intended to boost competition in this area.
"The ministry is convinced that the needs of the educational
institutions can be satisfied by using free and open source software."

The current proprietary licence contract will run out on 1 March.

The cancellation of the funding of proprietary office licences had been
discussed by the government when the contract ran out in March 2011. At
that time the ministry decided to extend the licence deal for one more
year.

Source -
http://joinup.ec.europa.eu/news/open-document-standards-mandatory-hungary-government

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