____/ peterwn on Saturday 03 November 2007 07:45 : \____
> On Nov 3, 5:38 pm, Roy Schestowitz <newsgro...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Canadian Greens add FOSS to election platform
>>
>> ,----[ Quote ]
>> | Thanks to a founding member of Free Geek Vancouver, the Green Party of
>> | Canada has quietly become the first major political party in Canada to
>> | make support for free and open source software (FOSS) part of its election
>> | platform.
>
> The New Zealnd Greens have been making similar noises.
>
> Neat thing the Greens will be wanting Governments to procure computers
> that will last 10 to 20 years and not be stuck on vendor driven
> upgrades as at present.
BECTA, the BBC, and the government at large (see OP) neglect to take account of
their own studies and _recommendations_. BECTA found that proprietary software
is not needed, but went with Microsoft anyway. The BBC (Trust?) warned about
corporate interests and fell victim to the very same thing it envisioned. As
far as servers go, a study funded by the Government showed that Linux is twice
as green as Windows, but Gordon Brown /et al/ get excited about Mirosoft
deals, with lockins such as SharePoint. Rationale says one thing, but the
Microsoft Money says another.
BECTA and the BBC come under huge pressure at the moment. John Pugh has
recently slammed the government as well, so non-techies start to realise
what's going on (where their money goes).
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