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Government Plugs Microsoft With Online Training Course
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| The government is promoting Microsoft's
| proprietary software as part of a plan to get
| more UK adults online, despite arguing for
| greater adoption of open source in the past
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| [...]
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| Some open source supporters may object to
| elements of the new scheme however as, although
| the Online Basics course is supposed to be an
| independent education project, the site contains
| a link to Microsoft's own learning network â
| Microsoft Digital Literacy â which includes
| guidance on how to use Microsoft products. In
| February 2009, the UK government said it
| intended to use open source to save Â600 million
| a year and published guidelines the that effect
| but, despite this, the UK lags badly at open
| source, using it less than countries like Mali,
| open source activists said at a meeting in
| September.
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http://www.eweekeurope.co.uk/news/government-plugs-microsoft-with-online-training-course-2995
Home Access programme goes national
http://www.computing.co.uk/computing/analysis/2255981/home-access-programme-goes
Will there be Free software?
Recent:
Why can't local government and open source be friends?
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| Nobody seems to have stood up in a meeting and said: "You know, there's lots
| of very good open source content management systems (CMS) out there - there's
| one called Wordpress which is free and eminently customisable." This is
| peculiar, as Wordpress was available (and as solid as any CMS) in 2005, runs
| on MySQL and PHP (which are both free products used by some of the largest
| companies in the world, such as airlines and Yahoo). And there are pots of
| programmers around with MySQL and PHP skills.
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2009/aug/07/local-government-open-source-birmingham-website-costs
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
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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