Jan Stedehouder

No, these two commercial entities didn’t sign-up for our campaign (yet ), but via their own attitudes towards their proprietary webtechnologies Flash (Adobe) and Silverlight (Microsoft) their underscore efforts to make the use of Open Standards mandatory for all publicly-funded institutions, especially for online  educational environments. Two recent news articles emphasize the need to move to Open Standards: (1) Adobe decided to stop developing it’s Flash Player for mobile devices (switching to Adobe Air instead, the development of which won’t continue for the Linux platform) and (2) even Microsoft watcher Mary Jo Foley now speculates openly that the upcoming release of Silverlight might well be the end-of-the-line. Perhaps Silverlight might change, or reincarnate in a different form, but it does prove the folly of relying on a single-vendor proprietary technology.

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Some of you have noticed there is something buzzing among your Dutch friends. It has to do with education, Silverlight, open standards and being obese. I’ve been asked to write about it in English so you all can get on the same page as us, and sign a petition to show your support for our campaign to make the use of open standards in education mandatory.

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