Thanks for posting about this. I am a West Dorset Kubuntu user and I have
just joined your mailing list and I was totally unaware of the
consultation. After a quick read I realise that I need to know a lot more
to make an informed response.
I was unable to come to the last meeting in Bournemouth and was wondering
when or if there could be a meeting in Dorchester/Weymouth or Bridport as
there are a number of us Linux users over this way.
A meeting could be a good way of coordinating a response to the
consultation. I have no great faith in consultations but I know the outcome
of not responding.
Dave Neylan
On 23 March 2012 15:07, Terry Coles d-...@hadrian-way.co.uk wrote:
On Wednesday 28 Dec 2011 12:06:09 Terry Coles wrote:
On Wednesday 28 Dec 2011 11:14:30 Simon P Smith wrote:
The withdrawal of PPN 3/11 is a scandal!
I was using it to try and get some non-M$ products into a government
project - looks like that particular prop to my case has been well and
truly kicked out :(
Can I suggest that you write to your MP and point this out. By pure
coincidence, I had just sealed the envelope holding my letter to my MP
(Annette Brooke) when I saw your post. I pointed out that the decision
favours the foreign corporates and disadvantages UK companies.
Well, it's taken very nearly three months, but I've finally got a reply to
my
letter. Annette Brooke responded almost immediately after the New Year
break,
saying that she had forwarded my letter to Vince Cable. It then went quiet
for a while, until I got an email from her constituency office saying that
the
letter had gone to the Cabinet Office. Here's part of what it said:
'This is just to let you know that we have just heard from the Department
of
Business that Annette’s letter of 10 January on your behalf, has been
passed
to the Cabinet Office. BIS advised that the inordinate delay has been due
to
waiting for the Cabinet Office to accept the case. I am very sorry about
this.'
Today, I received via Annette Brooke's constituency office, a letter from
Francis Maude. Unsurprisingly, he never answered my original question,
which
was effectively 'why did the Government reverse the perfectly adequate
Policy
on Open Standards in Government?'. Instead he tells me all about the
current
consultation that is ongoing on Open Standards, which I was already well
aware
of because I participated in the preliminary survey last year. This kind
of
response was only to be expected expected really. You can't expect a
straight
answer out of a senior politician.
Anyway, can I encourage anyone who has an interest in this (and can spare
the
time), to go to http://consultation.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/openstandards/,
download the Policy Document and respond to the consultancy?
Remember, this is about Open Standards, not Open Source. Even so, this
country needs to adopt Open Standards in IT to prevent the kind of lock-in
we've had for the last 20 years or so.
Don't forget that if we don't participate, then the proprietary companies
will
prevail, because you can be sure they'll be responding.
--
Terry Coles
64 bit computing with Kubuntu Linux
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