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> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
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>> Open source providers included in £80M UK education tender
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>> | Becta has included several open source providers in the bidding for a
>> | £80M contract to supply software licences to the education sector.
>> | Novell, LinuxIT and Sirius Corporation are among those believed to be in
>> | the running. This is the first time that Becta has broadened its
>> | potential supplier list to include suppliers of open source software.
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>> http://www.heise-online.co.uk/open
> Open-source-providers-included-in-Lb80M-UK-education-tender--/news/111317
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> In short, there was never a reason to exclude them in the first
> place!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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> So how many other government departments and local councils in UK and EU
> draped in illegal anti-Linux subversive activities? The topic needs to be
> investigated and exposed by the FOSS companies themselves with a big
> public shame list for all to see.
You'd probably need to grease up (bribe) some politicians to have them care
about this in the first place. Welcome to {Democracy Crisis}^1.
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[1] http://lessig.org/blog/2008/07/netroots_nation_keynote.html
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