Editing Open standard (section)

==== Venezuelan law definition ====
The [[Venezuelan Government]] approved a "free software and open standards law."<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.gobiernoenlinea.ve/docMgr/sharedfiles/Decreto3390.pdf |title="Decreto 3390" of Free Software and Open Standards, December, 23rd 2004 |access-date=2007-10-03 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071109175406/http://www.gobiernoenlinea.ve/docMgr/sharedfiles/Decreto3390.pdf |archive-date=2007-11-09 |url-status=dead }}</ref> 
The decree includes the requirement that the Venezuelan public sector must use free software based on open standards, and includes a definition of open standard:

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Article 2: for the purposes of this Decree, it shall be understood as

k) Open standards: technical specifications, published and controlled by an organization in charge of their development, that have been accepted by the industry, available to everybody for their implementation in free software or other [type of software], promoting competitivity, interoperability and flexibility.
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