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Open Source for Britain?
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| There's no doubt that the state of open source in government is even more
| parlous here than in the US, and so the need for such an organisation is even
| more pressing. But I wonder whether there's quite the critical mass here: are
| there enough companies basing their business around open source to fund such
| an organisation? And, even more critically, could they come up with a better
| name than Open Source for Britain?
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http://www.computerworlduk.com/toolbox/open-source/blogs/index.cfm?entryid=2376&blogid=14
Building on Open Data
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| One of the great things about openness is that it lets people do incredible
| things by adding to it in a multiplicity of ways. The beatuy is that those
| releasing material don't need to try to anticipate future uses: it's enough
| that they make it as open as possible Indeed, the more open they make it, the
| more exciting the re-uses will be.
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http://opendotdotdot.blogspot.com/2009/07/building-on-open-data.html
What open source government data gets you
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| What makes the difference is the transit system’s attitude toward its route
| data. When you take a proprietary attitude, as MARTA does, riders are left in
| the dark. An open source attitude, like TriMet’s empowers riders.
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=4514
Recent:
UK Still Lags At Open Source
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| The UK is still a laggard at open source, even though the recession has
| increased pressure for its adoption, according to speakers at a London
| conference.
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| "I could go to Mali, and Mali would probably have a better adoption of open
| source than the UK," said Matt Asay, marketing vice president at Alfresco and
| open source blogger at CNet. "The UK tends to be a laggard compared to just
| about every other country on the planet."
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| The UK government's decision to promote open source in public sector IT won
| kudos, but was behind countries like the Netherlands, which has had a strong
| public sector IT policy for two years now, according to Jan Wildeboer, open
| source evangelist at Red Hat.
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http://www.eweekeurope.co.uk/news/uk-still-lags-at-open-source-1147
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