Open Standards NZ Co-signers

The undersigned have all agreed that the New Zealand government should create a level playing field for software by mandating that all software procurement, particularly of commercial-off-the-shelf software, only considers software complying with open standards that are vendor-neutral, royalty-free and unencumbered by patents.

Where no relevant open standard exists, the government should undertake to develop suitable open standards, building on those already available elsewhere.

The goal is for software suppliers to the NZ government to compete to meet government-specified open standards rather than competing to set their own proprietary standard as is currently common practise.

# Name Organisation Comment Submitted
121 John Butt TrueNet Not just Microsoft, it would be good to get Apple to use opensource for it's office files also. 2 Aug 2016 21:13
122 Martin Hohman-Marriott United Scientists CORE Limited open standards are crucial for: - collaboration - future-proof technologies - resource conservation 7 Jan 2022 18:45
123 David Thompson University of Canterbury 5 Sep 2015 16:27
124 Tony Dale University of Canterbury 30 Jul 2015 11:16
125 David J. Pearce Victoria University of Wellington 22 Jul 2015 10:56
126 Rasheed A Waikato Islamic School We use Firefox and LibreOffice on all PCs in our computer lab. Our students do not miss any feature in MS Office :) 24 Apr 2021 07:29
127 Brady Dyer Web Boutique Heard you talk at ITx2016 11 Jul 2016 14:58