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The OSC's Open Letter To Becta
Blog Comment I do not know the full history or the relative merits of all the parties in this, but Mark Taylor's letter seems rather ill considered, although clearly expressing his frustration, whether justified or not.
[June 14, 2008, 23:29]
Red Hat Signs Up UK Services Partner
News Mark Taylor, the chief executive of Sirius, said: "Many of our clients are deploying mission-critical applications on Red Hat Enterprise Linux. You can read a guest comment piece from Mark Taylor here.
[December 4, 2006, 13:00]
Shuttleworth: Open-source Desktops Need A Facelift
News Linux absolutely needs more usability," said Mark Taylor, founder of the Open Source Consortium. However, Taylor cautioned against the open-source movement taking too rigid a line with developers on usability requirements.
[September 11, 2008, 16:23]
The OSC's Open Letter To Becta
Blog Here's the full text of a very angry letter, sent today to the educational advisory body Becta by Mark Taylor, president of the Open Source Consortium and chief executive of the enterprise support firm Sirius.
[June 13, 2008, 15:10]
The OSC's Open Letter To Becta
Blog Comment I agree that the complaint shouldn't have been framed this way, but I can well understand Mark Taylor's frustration. On a brighter note, isn't reassuring to know our beurocratic officials are just as corrupt as those in any other country!
[June 14, 2008, 20:44]
Microsoft Criticised For Open XML Petition
News The petition is an attempt to make it appear that Open XML has "pseudo-grassroots" support, argues Mark Taylor, the founder of the Open Source Consortium. In the open-source world, there's clearly a massive grassroots thing," Taylor told ZDNet UK...
[April 5, 2007, 14:12]
Becta Takes Microsoft To The OFT
News This is a mini-step in the right direction, but what Becta is actually doing is keeping Microsoft in front of the market to the exclusion of alternatives," said Mark Taylor of the Open Source Consortium pressure group.
[October 19, 2007, 16:44]
Red Hat: Open Source Driven By Anti-US Sentiment
News I'm reluctant to agree with that statement," said Mark Taylor, president of the Open Source Consortium, which promotes the use of open-source software in the public sector in the UK. Many open-source innovations, including Linux, originated within...
[March 26, 2008, 15:27]
CA's Ingres Sell-off Met With Scepticism
Talkback If Mark Taylor thinks open source databases are outpacing Ingres then he should do a serious feature-by-feature comparison and I think he'll get a shock. Now that may still be 'a drop in the ocean' but it's not as insignificant as Mr Taylor would...
[November 9, 2005, 10:17]
Row Erupts Over Schools Open-source Project
News Today, Friday 13th, Becta's open-source posturing is exposed as a sham, empty spin covering 'business as usual' political sleaze," wrote Mark Taylor, who, in addition to his role as chief executive of Sirius, is the president of the Open Source...
[June 16, 2008, 10:11]
FAST Accused Of Indoctrinating Children
News But Mark Taylor, president of the Open Source Consortium, a group that represents the interests of open source in the public sector, said that when a organisation has to resort to "indoctrination of children" to promote its cause then it’s usually...
[June 8, 2006, 16:50]
Gartner: Open Source Will Quietly Take Over
News Gartner has woefully underestimated the penetration of open source," said Mark Taylor, president of promotion group the Open Source Consortium. Gartner has also underestimated the benefits of Linux, said Taylor: "There are a range of open-source...
[April 4, 2008, 14:53]
Schools Face Software Licensing Clampdown
News Presumably this is why it is outsourced by big business interests," said Mark Taylor, president of the Open Source Consortium, a group that represents the interests of open source vendors in the public sector.
[May 25, 2006, 11:30]
UK Standards Body Taken To Court Over OOXML
News The UKUUG has been in existence for 32 years and is, according to Mark Taylor, the head of the Open Source Consortium (OSC), a "venerable organisation of men with long grey beards". The OSC's Taylor told ZDNet.co.uk that the UKUUG's action carried...
[May 1, 2008, 16:34]
Birmingham Begins Major Open Source Pilot
News The final write-up will be done by a neutral observer, said Mark Taylor of the Open Source Consortium, an advocate of government use of open source: "Every report on open source is skewed. This sort of pilot is needed to make open source benefits...
[May 16, 2005, 17:55]
Security Flaw Hits Linux
News The flaw, discovered by Linux user Matthias Clasen and Owen Taylor, an engineer at Linux-software company Red Hat, affects any Linux program that uses the zlib library for decompression, including the core software of the operating system, the...
[March 12, 2002, 8:52]
HP Calls Spying Scandal A 'wake-up Call'
News The high-profile events, which helped spur the enactment of legislation that specifically criminalises pretexting for telephone records, signaled gaps in the system that had earned HP a reputation for high ethical standards, said chief privacy...
[March 2, 2007, 9:52]
Microsoft's Standardisation Move Divides Experts
Talkback "Mark Taylor, executive director of the Open Source Consortium, agreed that Microsoft's move was not as open as it might first appear. He said that Microsoft appears to want to extend its "Office monopoly into the XML age.
[November 23, 2005, 13:08]
Exclusive: Microsoft Admits 'compliance Problems' With Millennium
News It's true," said Mark Taylor, director of consulting at Microsoft in a statement, "we've now found.compliance problems. Asked if people who bought Microsoft software thinking it was able to cope with all Millennium issues may have been misled by...
[April 20, 1998, 13:16]
BBC 'committed' To IPlayer Platform Neutrality
News OSC president Mark Taylor said: "The meeting with the Trust was very positive. Taylor explained that the issue isn't just about desktops but also mobile phones and media players — many of which run on Linux or Apple software — which the BBC claims...
[July 26, 2007, 9:13]
