Glyn Moody: EU Wants to Re-define “Closed” as “Nearly Open”

[Sean DALY]

http://www.computerworlduk.com/toolbox/open-source/blogs/index.cfm?entryid=2620&blogid=14&pn=1

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."