UK Government Breaks Open Source Promises 145
judgecorp writes "The UK government has promised to favour open source systems in its procurement (and made those promises repeatedly). However, freedom of information requests have shown it is doing nothing of the sort. It is giving contracts to the same large suppliers as before."
Re:Sad truth (Score:4, Funny)
When it comes to stuck in the mud unable to change, the monarchy in the UK is a prime example of it. Keep in mind monarchy was basically a system of government based upon torturing to death anyone who disagreed or even might possibly disagree. Basically a system of government based upon homicidal psychopaths and their loyal psychopathic minions. That's the heritage of monarchy and one can see it today in various autocratic states when power is handed down within a family and opponents are executed in the most horrific fashion imaginable ie. Libya, Syria, North Korea etc. etc.
Really honestly any sane person should be ashamed and embarrassed to be part of a royal (descendent of homicidal maniac) family but no they strut about like insane clowns with delusions of grandeur, now that is really embarrassingly backward, much like continuing the closed source proprietary software route. No control, forced upgrades, wasted dollars auditing proprietary code (paying for the privileged debugging), data purposely degraded by upgrade incompatibilities and an endless stream of marketing lies that you as the consumer pay for.