http://www.computerworlduk.com/toolbox/open-source/blogs/index.cfm?entryid=2...
Note section 5.2.1 of linked PDF document:
"However, public administrations may decide to use less open specifications, especially in cases where open specifications do not meet the functional interoperability needs or the ones available are not mature and/or sufficiently supported by the market, or where all cooperating organisations already use or agree to use the same technologies."
Sean DALY sean.daly@wanadoo.fr writes:
"However, public administrations may decide to use less open specifications, especially in cases where […] all cooperating organisations already use or agree to use the same technologies."
How neat. So, if some organisations do *not* agree to use a closed technology, they are *by definition* not counted as “cooperating organisations”.
There are no dissenting opinions. At least, not from anyone who matters.