Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
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> Open Source, Open Standards and Re–Use: Government Action Plan
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>| Open Source has been one of the most significant cultural developments in IT
>| and beyond over the last two decades: it has shown that individuals, working
>| together over the Internet, can create products that rival and sometimes beat
>| those of giant corporations; it has shown how giant corporations themselves,
>| and Governments, can become more innovative, more agile and more
>| cost-effective by building on the fruits of community work; and from its IT
>| base the Open Source movement has given leadership to new thinking about
>| intellectual property rights and the availability of information for re–use
>| by others.
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> http://www.cio.gov.uk/transformational_government/open_source/index.asp
The tide is a-turning... let's see if Bill Cnut Gates will continue to
wish it back again?
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> UK Government: Starts The Push For FOSS?
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>| Whoa! This comes from the Chief Information Office Council. Yes, the
>| Government is so big they can’t have just one CIO like even the biggest
>| Enterprise, they have to have a whole council of them ;-)
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> http://www.theopensourcerer.com/2009/02/24/uk-government-starts-the-push-for-foss/
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> UK Government Getting Real About Open Source
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>| As billions of bail-out dollars become trillions, it is clear that we need to
>| be realistic about the nature and the solutions to our world-wide software
>| crisis. Today the world spends more than $3T USD per year on systems that are
>| largely based on vendor lock-in, not value and not free and fair competition.
>| What is most shocking about the $3T USD number is not its sheer size alone,
>| but the fact that fully $1T USD of that number is written off ever year when
>| people are forced to abandon their projects before putting them into
>| production. The place to fix that problem is not in any specific piece of
>| software (most of which has 20-30 defects per 1000 source lines of code), but
>| in the fundamental system of competition that is responsible for ensuring
>| that malignant software can be successfully removed in the first place. The
>| UK Government's decision is a strong step in the direction of properly
>| restoring the right kind of competition in the marketplace. The days of
>| rewarding past performance, especially the performance of amassing billions
>| of dollars based on strategic lock-in, must be put behind us. And we should
>| treat any use of such funds for furthering vendor lock-in as extremely
>| suspect and worthy of an immediate and full investigation.
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> http://opensource.org/node/396
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> Government pushes open source with 10-point plan
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>| The government is getting serious about using open source as a building block
>| in systems development.
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>| Yesterday its top IT policy-making body, the CIO Council, published a10
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>| point action plan that frees central and local government departments to use
>| open source systems where possible.
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> http://www.computerweekly.com/Articles/2009/02/25/235006/government-pushes-open-source-with-10-point-plan.htm
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> UK Government policy update supports open source
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> http://www.h-online.com/open/UK-Government-policy-update-supports-open-source--/news/112714
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> Open Source? Labour's Working on It
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>| There's no doubt that in the UK the winners so far have been the
>| Conservatives, who have seized on open source as a stick with which to beat
>| the current government's miserable record on large-scale IT projects, most of
>| which have been way over budget at best, and utter failures at worst (with
>| some managing both).
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>| This has understandably put pressure on Labour to come up with a riposte, and
>| yesterday it was unveiled in the form of something called “Open Source, Open
>| Standards and Re–Use: Government Action Plan” (there's a handy version from
>| WriteToReply here, where you can add your comments.
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> http://www.computerworlduk.com/community/blogs/index.cfm?entryid=1918&blogid=14
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> Labour disingenously adopts Tory position on open source software
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> http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/alex_singleton/blog/2009/02/24/labour_disingenously_adopts_tory_position_on_open_source_software
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> UK government backs open source
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>| The UK government has said it will accelerate the use of open source software
>| in public services.
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>| Tom Watson MP, minister for digital engagement, said open source software
>| would be on a level playing field with proprietary software such as Windows.
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> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7910110.stm
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> Open Source, Open Standards and Re-Use: UK Government Policy
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>| The UK Government has made it clear that Open Source and Open Standards, with
>| a focus on re-use of software development and deployment, is to clearly and
>| unequivocably be part of the decision-making for UK Government I.T.
>| procurement and contracting. Also part of the policy is a clear committment
>| to engage with the Free Software community and to actively encourage the
>| development of "Government-Class" Free Software products.
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> http://www.advogato.org/article/1002.html
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> Is the UK going open source?
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>| The new UK initiative however is not a wholesale rip and replace of the
>| proprietary tools it already uses. It does not restrict the use of
>| proprietary software either, but rather 'supports' open standards over closed
>| proprietary lock-in.
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> http://blog.internetnews.com/skerner/2009/02/is-the-uk-going-open-source.html
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> UK Government Endorses Open Source and ODF
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>| Late today (UK time), the British Government issued a bold new strategy for
>| use of open source software - and open standards - in Great Britain. In Open
>| Source, Open Standards and Re-Use, the government's Minister for Digital
>| Engagement (yes, really, and he's on Twitter too) significantly revised the
>| brave but toothless policy of 2004 "that it should seek to use Open Source
>| where it gave the best value for money to the taxpayer in delivering public
>| services". This is fantastic news - the digital tipping point is at hand.
>| (The publication is also progressive in having nominated use of the
>| tag "#ukgovOSS" in comment and coverage so it can be found and aggregated).
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> http://blogs.sun.com/webmink/entry/uk_government_endorses_open_source
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> Government publishes open-source strategy
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> http://www.vnunet.com/computing/news/2237208/government-publishes-open
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> Government publishes open-source strategy
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>| The announcement follows a recent declaration by shadow chancellor George
>| Osborne that the Conservative Party favours the greater use of open source
>| and would take action to prove a "level playing field".
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> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/02/25/gov_open_source/
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> Recent:
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> Tories consider IT contract cap
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>| Instead of awarding long-term contracts to large IT companies they could open
>| up the procurement process to smaller firms using "open source" software.
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> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7853086.stm
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> Tories Back Open Source Software...They Say
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>| Fine words butter no cyber-parsnips, of course, and I'll believe all this
>| when I see it. Still, it's a start, and it would be good to see Labour
>| finally admitting that its megalomaniacal, monolithic computing projects are
>| failures, and adopting the decentralised, distributed approach the Tories are
>| advocating here.
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> http://www.computerworlduk.com/community/blogs/index.cfm?entryid=1791&blogid=14
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> Tories consider open source and limit on size of government IT projects
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>| Shadow chancellor George Osbourne is considering a report that recommends
>| putting a £100m spending cap on government IT contracts and opening up
>| procurement to small firms using open source software.
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> http://www.computerworlduk.com/toolbox/open-source/open-source-business/news/index.cfm?newsid=13011
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> UK Councils to explore Open Source benefits
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>| - First-ever UK conference on open source software in local government
>| announced - As new US Govt looks at open source, UK called upon to wake up to
>| opportunity
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> http://www.linuxpr.com/releases/11144.html
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