UK Gov't Reneges On Open Source Promise For Cloudstore 2.0

Posted by timothy on Friday May 18, 2012 @09:36PM from the promises-promises dept.

DerekduPreez writes "The UK government has finally unveiled the second iteration of its Cloudstore after a number of delays, and has reneged on its pledge to make version 2.0 open source. Cloudstore is an online catalogue that the public sector can use to procure cloud services provided by suppliers signed up to the G-Cloud framework. The first version of the Cloudstore was unveiled in February. Computerworld UK spoke to former G-Cloud director Chris Chant shortly after the first release, who was at the time also overseeing the second iteration. He stated during his interview that Cloudstore 2.0 would be go live in April and it would be built using open source code. However, following weeks of delays, the Cabinet Office has now confirmed that the second iteration also isn't open source."

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Re:expect nothing less from the Nasty Party by Theophany · 2012-05-18 22:10 · Score: -1, Flamebait

Yes. Because we would be so much better off with the fiscal moron twins Ed Milliband and Ed Balls running the country.

These are bad times politically and economically. The country's finances are in a mess and we have a deficit of sound political leadership both in practice and potential; arguing that the Torys are evil is like arguing that the lesser of two evils is too evil. The reality is that regardless of who is in No. 10 we're all screwed in one way or another.