Sadly, I think forum users need to realise that this has got nothing to do
with "open government", "free sdoftware", "GNU/Linux" etc ... aqnd also that
the headline on the Register article is misleading.
Francis Maude is a leading Tory MP whos remit at the Cabinet Office is to
made so-called "efficiency savings" in the civil service, a code word that we
all know means cuts.
The document is a *reccomendation* on documents that are exchanged in
Government, not an actual decision that will start pushing the Govenment
towards software freedom.
Software and IT provisions/spending government is extremely profitable and
surrounded by bullshit, corruption and lies. Maybe as part of an "efficiency
campaign", Maude may be going after some of the more outrageous practices,
but that does not make him a freind of the free software movement.
A former managing director of Morgan Stanley, a director at Asda and at
Salomon Brothers duing the mid 1990's (not a good time for Salomon), this guy
is not to be trusted, he's speaking Tory code for cuts and austerity imposed
because multi-millionaires like him who caused the problems want to keep
their power and position.
Sorry to be a bit ad hominem, but this guy is not working against the
"corporate machine", he is part of it.
