UK Government Breaks Open Source Promises 145
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timothy
from the it-sounded-good-at-the-time dept.
from the it-sounded-good-at-the-time dept.
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."
BBC Article (Score:4, Informative)
The linked-to article cites a BBC FOI request as the source, but doesn't link to the BBC's own article on the subject [bbc.co.uk], as far as I can tell.
Open STANDARDS, not open source (Score:5, Informative)
The commitment was for open STANDARDS, not open source. Open Standards are also a good thing, but they are not the same as open source.