News picks for June 14, 2010
Danish ministry doesn’t tell parliament about Free Software savings. The Danish Parliament asked the ministry of Finance to prepare a report on the country’s police budget. The ministry commissioned the report to a consultancy. The consultants came back saying that a migration to OpenOffice would save the police some 13 million Euro. The migration would only cost between 270,000 and a million Euro. When the finance ministry sent its report to the parliament, it didn’t include this recommendation. Denmark recently was the latest European country to make ODF mandatory in its public sector, and it seems the resistance to Open Standards isn’t over.
Town in Catalonia, Spain names street for Free Software. The town of Berga, close to Barcelona, has named one of its streets “Free Software Street”. On that street there is a public internet center. (Article in Catalán, so not sure I got the details correctly.)
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