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Story: Government promises more open-source use
UK Government reckons this open source thingy could catch on maybe
Yep - in typical fashion, even the government's tacit admission that it was behind the curve on open source was released late.
The press release/statement/apology - Government levels the playing field for open source - wasn't sent out from the Ministry of Truth until at least 7.00pm - when most reporters are tucked up in the nearest hostelry.
And what about that headline - "levels the playing field' - that seems to imply that until now the government has been quite happy with uneven playing field when it comes to procuring anything but proprietary technology but I might be being unfair.
Interestingly though the release also states that "major players in the IT industry now support the use of Open Standards". For major players basically read Microsoft as I am not sure what other major players have recently stumbled over this open source thing: IBM, HP, Dell - have all been supporting Linux (to some degree or other) for years.
More on my blog here: http://community.zdnet.co.uk/blog/0,1000000567,10012221o-2000331759b,00.htm
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