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UK Sets Open Source Procurement Policy
An anonymous submitter notes a story in the Register about the UK publishing their policy on the use of Open Source software. (Or skip straight to the policy itself.) The UK has been moving towards this for a while, and while they don't rule out using proprietary code, the policy definitely recognizes the benefits of OSS.
I look forward to Bill Gates parachuting into the UK and depositing a ... ahem ... small donation to help us sort out the mess that is our railways!
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Labour party, you know. Not the bloody Tories.
Stop the brainwash
Maybe they're related?
No, can't be. They would have to be on crack, not pot.
(let the flame fest begin!)
"UK Government will seek to avoid lock-in to proprietary IT products and services"
At the moment this sentence hit the web, Microsoft began accepting resumes for fifty lobbyists with bad teeth and old-world accents.
I would like to be the first person to draw your attention to the bottom of the report, where they state that it can be downloaded in msword, pdf or rtf formats, and say something funny about it.
Only I can't think of anything funny to say. Make up your own joke, maybe even post it here so the rest of us can appreciate it.
graspee
I mean, if war breaks out between France and the US, and they don't allow Windows exports, that would be catastrophic!
Nah, the French would surrender before they even got Linux downloaded, let alone noticed how much better it is. 8-)
Athletic Scholarships to universities make as much sense as academic scholarships to sports teams.
Bah, who needs a support staff for Linux. Just have an e-mail address that in answer to any query spits out "RTFM".
Companies could save millions!
With my dying breath, I curse Zoidberg!
"Contracts will be awarded on a value for money basis. "
This is somewhat contradictory in a sense.
Some math:
Windows + $ = contract
Linux + ? = contract
Windows value/$=x
Linux/0 = windows error
linux + commercial distribution = contract
linux + consultant = contract
Linux + inhouse IT = Windows usefulness in most gov't applications
linux value per money > windows value per money
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It blows my mind that it has taken governments until the 21's century to understand this.
Right. I would have thought that governments would have figured this out in the 17th or maybe 18th century.
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