Lawmaker blasts U.K. government on Microsoft policy
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| A member of Parliament of the United Kingdom has launched a stinging attack
| on the U.K. government's IT strategy, saying that it has given Microsoft too
| much control.
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http://www.news.com/Lawmaker-blasts-U.K.-government-on-Microsoft-policy/2100-1012_3-6212721.html
EU's Lowe says 'impatient' to see implementation of Microsoft decision UPDATE
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| It also upheld the EU executive's demands for the company to offer a version
| of its Windows software without its Media Player, and to share the software
| protocols or 'interoperability information' underpinning Windows for makers
| of rival products.
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http://www.hemscott.com/news/latest-news/item.do?newsId=51178830566825
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The trainwreck-waiting-to-happen that is UK government IT spending
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| Think about that. Think about what this means: eight vendors have a
| tremendous amount of leverage over the taxpayers of the United Kingdom.
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| The UK, in other words, is a captive of its IT vendors. That is shockingly
| wrong.
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http://blogs.cnet.com/8301-13505_1-9777862-16.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=TheOpenRoad
BBC Corrupted
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| Today the BBC made it official -- they have been corrupted by Microsoft. With
| today's launch of the iPlayer, the BBC Trust has failed in its most basic of
| duties and handed over to Microsoft sole control of the on-line distribution
| of BBC programming. From today, you will need to own a Microsoft operating
| system to view BBC programming on the web. This is akin to saying you must
| own a Sony TV set to watch BBC TV. And you must accept the Digital
| Restrictions Management (DRM) that the iPlayer imposes. You simply cannot be
| allowed to be in control of your computer according to the BBC.
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http://defectivebydesign.org/blog/BBCcorrupted
The [UK] politics of open source
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| There's been a suggestion of a shift towards open source in the
| houses of government in the UK recently, with the Conservative
| Party promising to promote open source if elected and the incumbent
| Labour Party releasing the code behind its new carbon footprint
| calculator under the General Public License.
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http://www.businessreviewonline.com/os/archives/2007/07/the_politics_of.html
Lessig: Required Reading: the next 10 years
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| Yet governments continue to push ahead with this idiot idea -- both Britain
| and Japan for example are considering extending existing terms. Why?
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| The answer is a kind of corruption of the political process. Or better,
| a "corruption" of the political process. I don't mean corruption in the
| simple sense of bribery. I mean "corruption" in the sense that the
| system is so queered by the influence of money that it can't even get
| an issue as simple and clear as term extension right.
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http://www.lessig.org/blog/archives/003800.shtml#003800
Governments slammed for anti-competitive software tendering practices
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| A leading Australian open source advocate has called for an end for to
| tender lock-outs of competitors to Microsoft, claiming the practice
| is costing Australian taxpayers tens of millions of dollars each
| year.
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http://www.itwire.com.au/content/view/11496/53/
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