Posts Tagged Netherlands
The party has started
Posted by Bob Beela in News, Nikon, Photography on 2 February, 2008
The Prince of Waalre.
Carvaval 2008.
It is wet and cold outside
Posted by Bob Beela in Nikon, Photography on 20 January, 2008
20-01-2008.
Netherlands Adopts Open-Source Software: Financial News – Yahoo! Finance
Posted by Bob Beela in News, Technology on 17 December, 2007
It sounds really nice, the adoption of open-source software and open standards to cut cost and the dependencies on individual companies. Anyone who looks further into this sees that it is more the case of “using only those open standards so certain companies are excluded”.
Netherlands Adopts Open-Source Software: Financial News – Yahoo! Finance
Hirsi Ali Offered a Safe Haven in Denmark
It is good to see that Denmark is offering Hirsi Ali a safe haven to stay (link). Criticism that the Dutch government is failing in this area is not completely fair and correct.
Hirsi Ali was protected in the Netherlands during the time she was receiving threads and would she have remained in nthe Netherlands she would have received protection during that stay. She decided to move to the US partly because she was offered a prestigious job in a conservative Think-tank, partly because if she would have remained in the Netherlands she would have had to live here under a constant protection program.
She was told that if she was moving to the US she would have to consider that the US wouldn�t automatically protect her and that she would have to hire her own protection. That Denmark is offering Hirsi Ali a safe haven is more a criticism towards the US that they are not providing a safe haven than the Dutch government is lacking.
Personally I would have preferred if the Dutch government would have given her some kind of protection in the US, maybe in collaboration with US government.
