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Story: Photos: Centre launched to promote open source

Posted by: Sothis (Tuesday 27 February 2007, 5:14 PM)

True Motives

John Pugh's comment is well noted:

"Open source has its enemies and its enemies are very close to government. They are very close to the top of governments and they are intending to stay there"

Unfortunately, sometimes enemies pose as friends.

The founders of the 'National' 'Open' Centre are:

Birmingham City Council - what motive could they possibly have other than the promotion of 'Open Source', after all they are well know for successful projects and for a report highlighting it's benefits.

NCC - whose 'Open Source Lab' quietly dropped from view after the Microsoft and Dell sponsored lab took it's place. Surely a coincidence.

OpenAdvantage - The running out of its funding is surely just another coincidence.

Many organisations will welcome the founding of this new 'national' initiative. Becta and the BBC will not be the only ones.