Not sure what Kumar is trying to say in his blog. Of course there is a difference between open source and open standards. I think this is recognized by many people. Both are important, although I think open standards are more important than open source.
Recently in the Netherlands some political parties, like groen links, have suggested using open source for government use. This is also happening in other countries, such as Germany. I think this focus on open source is maybe too much. I think it would be better if governments would make open standards mandatory. Simple example, text documents should be based on an open standard, not on Microsoft Word. When looking for new word processing software, only software that supports open standards should be considered. Maybe this would force microsoft to support an open standard in Word, for example the Open Office text format. This would make real competition a possibility, as it would be easier for other companies (or groups) to offer compatible text processing software.
And then the next step may be open source…