Thanks Terry, it was 95 when I signed, so some signatories must have
pulled out!
I wonder how much of our money the government and its departments is
actually spending annually on purchasing Microsoft Office and other
routine (i.e., non-specialist) software.
This could be a 'Freedom Of Information' question, but the question
would need to be framed very carefully indeed if it is to avoid the
government's usual obfuscation process (they could claim that
MS-Office was 'specialist office software' for instance and not
include it).
I feel sure that the sum would be enormous, and that making it public
at a time when the government is taking more and more money from it's
citizens, would make a telling point that would bring the money being
spent in this direction to the attention of the public at large and
greatly help the case Open Source.
I feel like making an FOI request myself, but I am not familiar with
the process and, being just an individual, I might not achieve any
significant effect. I don't know who would be best placed to do this -
an MP, or a large newspaper perhaps, does anyone have ideas?
Charles Miller
Quoting Terry Coles <[email protected]>:
On Monday 02 Apr 2012 20:55:21 Victor Churchill wrote:
I saw this mentioned on a different LUG list I lurk in:
"Just to let you know that a LinuxQuestions member initiated an
e-petition to call for a Windows to Linux migration on the government
IT systems.
http://epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/32255
Well. I went there and the page said that there were 115 signatories so far.
I filled it in, responded to the confirmatory email and the number of
signatories changed to 114!
How does that work then? If we got everyone on this LUG and a few others to
sign, we'd be into negative numbers.
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