UK Government Breaks Open Source Promises

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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Open STANDARDS, not open source

[evilandi]

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.