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Story: Government promises more open-source use

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This is a spoiler

Your cynicism is well founded in my view. This announcement is a classic spoiler tactic and a direct result of the Tory party's recent pro-OSS policy announcements.

Now Labour can claim, as they have done, that they've had an OSS policy in place for years (since 2004!) and so they're leading the agenda not following it.

The reality is that the Labour Party's OSS policy has consisted of ignoring every vendor that didn't provide it with 'incentives'. OSS vendors don't do slush funds for political lobbying quite like the incumbent proprietary vendors. For example, MS's US lobbying budget was something like $80m last year. It would be interesting to see how that compares in the UK.

Tom Watson is learning fast. Minister for Digital Engagement indeed. What balls.

This looks like good old fashioned realpolitik to me.

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