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UK Government Breaks Open Source Promises

Posted by timothy on from the it-sounded-good-at-the-time dept.

judgecorp writes "The UK government has promised to favour open source systems in its procurement (and made those promises repeatedly). However, freedom of information requests have shown it is doing nothing of the sort. It is giving contracts to the same large suppliers as before."

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  1. BBC Article by Sockatume · · Score: 3, Informative

    The linked-to article cites a BBC FOI request as the source, but doesn't link to the BBC's own article on the subject, as far as I can tell.

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    No kidding!!! What do you say at this point?
  2. Open STANDARDS, not open source by evilandi · · Score: 5, Informative

    The commitment was for open STANDARDS, not open source. Open Standards are also a good thing, but they are not the same as open source.

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    Andrew Oakley - www.aoakley.com