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UK Government upgrades Open Source policy
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| The UK Government has revised its 2009 Open
| Source strategy and will now require
| suppliers to show they have considered open
| source. Although the government says that
| the new strategy documentPDF "does not
| represent a wholesale change to Open Source
| Open Standards Reuse Strategy" they have
| taken account of feedback from
| writetoreply.org.
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http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/UK-Government-upgrades-Open-Source-policy-914526.html
UK.gov tweaks open source policy small print
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| The UK government has rejigged its open
| source and open standards software
| procurement policy, following pressure from
| OSS vendors last autumn.
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| Early last year the Cabinet Office revised
| its rules on public sector open source
| software purchases, but many OSS players
| complained that the policy amendments
| didnât go far enough.
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http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2010/01/27/uk_goverment_open_source_procurements/
A âRefreshedâ ICT Strategy for Government?
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| Clearly, much of this is just words, words,
| words, as someone once said. Moreover, the
| time scales are depressingly long: 2015 is
| a generation away in technology terms.
| Still, the fact that open source is
| mentioned explicitly in the ways described
| above, and that there is a growing
| understanding of the problems it faces,
| gives me some slight hope that one day we
| might even start seeing free software being
| widely used by the UK government.
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http://www.computerworlduk.com/community/blogs/index.cfm?blogid=14&entryid=2760
Government plans to overhaul computing system
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| The government's planning to overhaul its
| entire computing system, focussing on open
| source software and cloud computing.
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http://www.bcs.org/server.php?show=conWebDoc.34248
Open source vendors underwhelmed by government's ICT plans
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| The UK government's stance on open source
| is meaningless without any significant
| means of enforcement. That's the view of
| the open source community which has
| bemoaned the lack of teeth in guidelines
| issued this week.
| Although there was a broad welcome for the
| new Cabinet Office strategy document,
| particularly the passages affirming the
| support for open source, several commented
| that there was a need to go further.
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http://news.techworld.com/operating-systems/3211336/open-source-vendors-underwhelmed-by-governments-ict-plans/
The government and open source - all talk and no action
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| The Cabinet Office seems to have got its PR
| strategy all wrong. The period leading up
| to the launch of the iPad would have been a
| perfect day to have buried bad news #169;Jo
| Moore but the new ICT strategy seems to be
| something to celebrate: a move that saves
| money, cuts carbon emissions, sets out a
| cloud computing policy and offers more to
| the open source community should be
| trumpeted loud and clear on a day free from
| any other distractions.
|
| [...]
|
| So, if we accept that public procurement
| should be more loaded in favour of open
| source software, what can be done about it?
| Should we adopt a policy like Hungary's
| where 20 percent of public procurement has
| to be open source? (although the open
| source community in Hungary is not entirely
| convinced it should be a poster-boy for
| European open source adoption) Should we
| adopt a policy like the Netherlands where
| open source has to be adopted, all other
| factors being equal? Or should it like
| France where there's no set policy but open
| source has taken off to such an extent that
| 96 percent of public sector bodies are now
| using it.
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http://blogs.techworld.com/the-blue-screen/2010/01/blah-1/
Public sector open source body needed
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| The governmentâs revamped open source
| procurement policy will continue to lack
| teeth unless a single body is made
| accountable for enforcement, a member of
| the open source community have warned.
|
| The measures, which have taken a total of
| five years to overhaul, are intended to
| promote open standards and encourage the
| reuse of software.
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http://www.publictechnology.net/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=22482
Recent:
Transparency against malpractic
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| As a result of my new enthusiasm to 'get out more' I found myself listening
| to a detailed and balanced 'non-advocacy' presentation from a respected OSS
| Watch staffer.
|
| He explained patiently how open source licencing worked and how it differed
| from proprietary licences. But what he did say whilst looking for an everyday
| resonance to make his points accessible to a non-geek audience, and which
| really sharpened every-one's attention, was that proprietary software was
| built on secret code whereas open source software had transparent code.
|
| Proprietary software IS composed of secret code. You can't read it, you don't
| know what it does (other than what you can see it do), you don't know how it
| does it and you can't change it.
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http://www.siriusit.co.uk/myblog/secret-code-and-the-damage-it-does-to-our-society.html
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