[monkeybrau]

"... every Norwegian citizen will be provided with a personal electronic ID as a replacement for the numerous use-ids and passwords currently used throughout."

No thanks! You don't have to be a conspiracy theorist to know what's wrong with this policy.

Their widespread forced adoption of open-source products to do everything they do now, in that timeline, will be chaos. I will be watching with

[monkeybrau]

Upon closer reading, i guess they have until 2006 to come up with a "plan" so might be a while before I get to eat any popcorn.

[N3WBI3]

Their widespread forced adoption of open-source products to do everything they do now, in that timeline, will be chaos. I will be watching with

Naa this ain't an opensource problem, this is a poor policy problem. You dont think if there was no opensource software the good people of Norway would not have to go to a single ID for "their convenience" just using a closed source system?