On Monday 05 Nov 2012 14:28:39 Simon P Smith wrote: > On 03/11/2012 08:20, Terry Coles wrote: > > Remember the Open Standards Consultation that took place in the Spring? > > Part of the discussion is below. > > > > Well the Consultation worked! The new Government Policy on Open Standards > > has been published and FSFE is *very* impressed! See: > > http://fsfe.org/news/2012/news-20121101-02.en.html > > Excellent - thanks for the update Terry. Had a quick scan through and > the principles seem > sound although somewhat pre-emptive defensive to a cynic like me ;-)
Well since I posted that there have been some rumbles that the Policy doesn't apply to COTS software, implying that Government Depts can continue to buy software from Microsoft, Oracle, etc. However, this: http://www.computerweekly.com/blogs/public-sector/2012/11/uk-insists-open- standards-orde.html seems to dispute that. Like all things, we'll have to wait and see how it works. -- Terry Coles 64 bit computing with Kubuntu Linux -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2012-11-06 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
