On Sun, 11 Mar 2007, Ian Lynch wrote:
On Sat, 2007-03-10 at 14:05 -0500, Lars D. Noodén wrote:
+ Here is where ISO/IEC 23600 compliance helps:
I know for a fact that The British Education Communications Technology
Agency (BECTA) would welcome suppliers to schools in the UK that
pre-installed OpenOffice.org on all the machines they sold to education.
...
Vendors like Dell would also make a lot of people with money and influence
quite pleased, even in the UK. The vendor which can make the first move
will really gain an advantage. Not just in the schools, but also in the
government as well:
George Osborne, the shadow chancellor, has criticised the
government over its apparent lack of support for open
source software.
Osborne said many of the world's multinational
corporations are developing open source software
strategies, and added that "far-sighted governments are
also taking advantage of this trend".
http://www.businessweek.com/globalbiz/content/mar2007/gb20070309_844497.htm
I'm not up on UK politics, but Osborne is from a different party than
Pugh.
-Lars
PS. The UK's technolgy projects started going south around the time MS
moved in and displaced open source. Since then it's been part and parcel
of the bad rep those projects have generated. It could be that most
people want to go back to systems that work.
Lars Noodén ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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