On Tuesday 06 Nov 2012 11:01:36 [email protected] wrote:
> Sorry, won't be able to make it tonight.
>
> A pity I will miss your discussion of Open Standards tonight as I
> would like to have heard your take on the probable results from the
> 'consultation', but it looks like a bog-standard political fudge to me
> - the government claiming to be doing its best for all of us, but
> carrying on with business as usual behind the scenes!
Perhaps. They claim to have taken on board all of the feedback from the 480
responses they got to the consultation (that doesn't sound much, but the
document was *very* comprehensive).
Apart from that, they have a lot of eyes on them, as evidenced by the
discussion over COTS S/W.
Time will tell. A Policy that says that they will require Open Standards is
harder to get round than no Policy at all.
--
Terry Coles
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