On Wednesday 28 Dec 2011 13:47:03 Terry Coles wrote:
> On Wednesday 28 Dec 2011 13:31:52 Mark Elkins wrote:
> > Just for the record I've looked at this recent statement about Open
> > Standards and feel its more about getting the statement bullet proof as
> > opposed to actually dropping intention to make greater use of (Free and)
> > Open Source.
I just want to add that PPN 3/11 (or 9/11 come to that) is nothing to do with
Open Source software. As the name says, the Policy Note is to do with Open
Standards, which allows the door to open for Open Source, but there are plenty
of proprietary solutions that conform to Open Standards.
Gosh. Even Microsoft could if they wanted to, instead of pretending to.
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