Norway Opens Free Software Center

“Norway opened a national center for competence in Free Software
in Drammen, near Oslo, on Wednesday. Here’s the center’s web page
in Norwegian. I gave a keynote speech, after the Minister of
Government Reform and a local politician. Here’s some local
commentary. I got to discuss OpenDocument vs. MS Office Open XML
with the minister, she was up-to-speed on the issue and Norway
casts its ISO vote on Monday . I don’t think we have any worries
there. I also got to talk with the ICT director from the ministry
and other officials, and had a number of meetings with officials in
Oslo on the previous day. Most distressing is that the Norwegian
universities are attempting to set up a US-like process to
copyright and patent public-funded research, including software,
for sale to monopolies. I’ll keep working on that…”

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