On Sun, 2007-03-11 at 08:25 -0400, Lars D. Noodén wrote: > 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".
> > Lars Noodén ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > Ensure access to your data now and in the future > http://opendocumentfellowship.org/about_us/contribute > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > 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. The Open Source Consortium, a group of small businesses of which mine is a member, has been politically active in this. Its down to OSC that the parliamentary early day motion on Open Source in schools was successful and we have been lobbying opposition parties so I think thi > > Lars Noodén ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > Ensure access to your data now and in the future > http://opendocumentfellowship.org/about_us/contribute > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] is what has resulted in > the Tories coming round. The reality is that the inertia is in the Civil > Service not so much the politicians because it was not seen as a party > political issue and fairly low down in the pecking order of priorities. We > are making sure it becomes a much more high profile issue which will have the > effect of the politicians putting pressure on the civil service to change. > Mainly its hassle for the Civil Service so they want to put it off as long as > possible. > > PS. The UK's technolgy projects started going south around the time MS > moved in and displaced open source. The main reason is not so much MS per se as the fact that the projects are too big and those scheduling them don't know enough. Where Open Source is relevant is that it would make suppliers more accountable and enable breaking large contracts into small projects with an emphasis on interoperability. > 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. Assuming the decision makers have any clue about what was done in the past. My experience, not just in technology is that new people come in and all they know is what they come into not what happened in the past. I have been talking to the exam regulators and most seem to see things as innovative that I am actually dragging up from the 1980s ;-) Ian -- www.theINGOTS.org www.schoolforge.org.uk www.opendocumentfellowship.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
