UK Gov't Considers Expanding Open Source Use

Posted by timothy on Saturday October 11, 2003 @09:10PM 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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Re:One step forward for RMS' goals by nicsterrr · 2003-10-11 23:40 · Score: 0, Redundant

Well done. Your words effervesce the opinion of someone who clearly does not have the intelligence to understand the reality behind our society's corporate brainwashing.

If you bothered to try to understand the reality underneath the marketing, you would perhaps realise that the philosophy of RMS and other like minded people is what has brought about the start of the change towards a better society.