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covers the First ODF Plugfest.
"Dutch minister for Foreign Trade Frank Heemskerk held an opening speech, outlining why the Dutch government pushes the usage of the three Os: Open Standards, Open Content and Open Source Software. Interoperability brings a better market and thus leads to better quality, lower prices, more innovation and vendor independence. The Netherlands wants to join the Scandinavian countries in becoming one of the leading countries in adopting ODF and Open Source software. Unfortunately, as we learned later on, the adoption of ODF is progressing very slowly."