On 3 February 2010 17:22, Terry Coles <[email protected]> wrote: > 'We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to require > publicly-funded bodies, in light of the Government's newly > published Open Source policy, to fully explore free and open > source software before choosing proprietary systems.' > > See http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/govt-oss/ > > -- > Terry Coles > 64 bit computing with Kubuntu Linux > > > -- > Next meeting: Bournemouth, Wed 2010-02-03 20:00 > http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=2645413 > Chat: http://www.mibbit.com/?server=irc.blitzed.org&channel=%23dorset > List info: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/dorset >
DfES guidelines say that we are only allowed to use proprietary/closed source products in schools, as they use the arguement that if somethin goes wrong, who are they going to litigate? Load of crap, but we end up spending £4k more oer fiscal anum than we would if we used open source solutions ~Dan -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Wed 2010-02-03 20:00 http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=2645413 Chat: http://www.mibbit.com/?server=irc.blitzed.org&channel=%23dorset List info: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/dorset
