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UK Gov't Considers Expanding Open Source Use

Posted by timothy on from the did-you-say-free-old-boy dept.

IonPanel writes "BBC have a story about the use of open source software at the heart of British government policy. The UK government is now running trials at both government and local level, citing the world-wide effort of a community of programmers fixing bugs and free upgrades as the reason. And all this despite the good friendship between Bill Gates and Tony Blair. There will be quite a few worried faces at Microsoft over the next few months ... Lets hope it's another Munich!" The experiments -- a joint effort with IBM, run by the Office of the E-envoy -- will "cover a range of departments, from the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister to the e-envoy's office itself."

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  1. John Prescott by Space+cowboy · · Score: 2, Funny

    [grin] I just can't see ole "two jabs" using Linux. I can't see him using anything more complicated than a notebook and pencil, to be honest ... Concepts like 'desktop metaphor' were not meant for the JP's of the world (pun intended :-)

    Simon.

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  2. What a travesty! by An+Anonymous+Hero · · Score: 3, Funny
    The experiments -- a joint effort with IBM, run by the Office of the E-envoy -- will "cover a range of departments, from the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister to the e-envoy's office itself."
    So the whole investigation is being run in .doc format?!? Obviously, the dice are loaded.

    I can see it coming. "Linux has GNUs", "ready to launch in under 45 minutes", blah, blah.

  3. Re:I have to wonder... by Sir+Haxalot · · Score: 2, Funny

    Is this the best face they could find to put in an article dealing with Open Source adoptation?
    I agree. This one is much cuter.

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  4. Re:I have to wonder... by 00_NOP · · Score: 2, Funny

    This babe obviously reads /. too much and has mistaken BSD for toast.