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UK Government Solicits Advice On Open Source

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the you-have-til-march dept.

Imran Ghory writes: "The UK government has put out a consultation paper on the use of open source software in government,background research into OSS commisioned by the government is also available, including a comparision of OSS office suites." Check out the formats in which the document is available.

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  1. Okay... by bconway · · Score: 2, Offtopic

    The documents are available in Word and .PDF format. These are pretty industry standard at this point, and .pdf can be read a multitude of ways. What's the problem?

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    1. Re:Okay... by irony+nazi · · Score: 0, Offtopic
      my roommate is very unstable tonight. He is upset that he doesn't have any friends and has been beating everything in his room senseless with a broken table leg.

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  2. The question by OzeBuddha · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Ah Timothy. dont make comments like th@ when you are obviously just trolling for blind M$ hating comments. Dont get me wrong - i'm no fan of M$ but .doc is just a standard. Comments accompanying stories should probably be slightly more impartial & subjective.
    But on a more cheerful note, this is a gr8 move by the UK government and i hope that it will prove to be an example that other governments will follow, but i wont keep my fingers crossed here in Australia where the current government seems to have its head in the sand.
    HAPPY NEW YEAR!

  3. Good! Now, Australian gov'ts can consider OSS... by ivi · · Score: 0, Offtopic


    After discovering - with disappointment - that
    South Australia's gov't has signed an (apparently
    LONG-TERM) "whole of enterprise" agreement to
    use -only- Microsoft software... (e.g. ALL new
    servers -must- use MS server software, etc.),
    I am happy to note that UK has begun to show
    some serious interest in OSS.

    Now, Australia's shiny-bums (i.e. civil servants)
    can seriously consider OSS...

    Still a colony... one way or another... ;-)

  4. Re:Didn't they used to do it ? by Anonymous+DWord · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Their site evidently uses much legacy ASP code (which, I must say, is extremely powerful and fast) which the British Government seems to utilize quite successfully. Why rewrite it in a slower language such as Perl, just to use an open source OS?

    Huh? ASP code? What, PerlScript? ASP isn't a language, numbnuts, so you can't exactly compare it to Perl. And I'd hesitate to call Perl a slow language (esp. mod_) when compared to, say, *snicker* Visual Basic. Nice try though. Stop talking out of your ass, and maybe we'll let you come back.

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