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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."
And just what facts are you using to support the claim "overwhelming perception in the business world that to get anything done you have to use Microsoft products"? Open Source alternatives are just another choice available to those who are responsible for maintaining and building their systems. Replacing current applications with open source alternatives can be a daunting task for both medium and large sized corporations. Things like re-training the existing in-house IT staff, re-training existing users, deciding exactly which combination of open source applications are capable of fulfilling existing functionality, converting existing application data, and a reluctance to risk violating licensing requirements which can be open to liberal interpretations and are constantly being challenged today in court. Even when Open Source licenses are upheld in court it still means legal expenses for both parties of the dispute. By now people know there are open source applications but choosing open source to support a "cause" or "movement" or to just to stick it to MS can be reckless.
Your ancestors were of course saintly people who never did anything wrong ...
The Monarchy now have very little power, have never put anyone to death in a very long time , almost nothing to do with government, cost us very little, and do a lot for tourism and stop us having a politician as President ...
Our politicians however even though elected have gone against our will, strut more then the monarchy even when retired, taken us to war several times, and killed many people both our own, and foreign ... not exactly a decent alternative
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