UK Government Solicits Advice On Open Source

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.

Comments

Okay...

[bconway]

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?

The question

[OzeBuddha]

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!

Re:Didn't they used to do it ?

[Anonymous DWord]

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.