Germany Joins Growing Ranks of Governments Adopting Open Source
Thursday, December 4th, 2008
It makes a lot of sense that governments should embrace open source. Governments should stand independent of proprietary platforms such as Microsoft. ODF makes it easier for countries to remain business neatral and ensure their documents will still be able to be read no matter hwat happens to proprietary platforms.
Germany Joins Growing Ranks of Governments Adopting ODF
Washington, D.C. December 3, 2008. The ODF Alliance welcomed the decision by the
Federal Government of Germany to implement use of the OpenDocument Format (ODF) by
federal agencies beginning in 2010.
“2008 will end on a high note, with Germany joining the growing ranks of governments that
have adopted ODF,” said ODF Alliance managing director Marino Marcich. To date, 16
national and 8 provincial governments have now formally recommended or required the use
of ODF by government agencies and with the public.
Here is a pdf that Outlines the current march by countries to open ODF format
