On Monday 26 Mar 2012 12:13:37 Mark Elkins wrote: > The Open Source Consortium (OSC) http://www.opensourceconsortium.org/ are > mentioning the > http://www.computerweekly.com/blogs/public-sector/2012/01/microsoft-hustled > -uk-retreat-o.html again in their blog. Just a thought but you might find > this blog good reading if you want to join it - which can be done for free.
I'll keep an eye on this as I work through the responses. > Also rather timely OSSG are on the case of FRAND etc this Thursday eve > http://ossg.bcs.org/2012/03/29/ I'll be interested to see the outcome. In all this I see two distinct camps in the Government side: 1. The people who genuinely want to get it right and understand the issues. In other words they know what is needed to ensure that citizens and UK companies get the best chance of reading and using government documents. 2. The people who listen to 'Industry' and believe that they have to keep the likes of Microsoft and Oracle 'happy'. Quite why they might have that belief is open to interpretation (and vested interests). We live in interesting times ;-) -- Terry Coles 64 bit computing with Kubuntu Linux -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday 2012-04-03 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ New thread on mailing list: mailto:[email protected] How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://goo.gl/4Xue
