Open Source

I’m extremely pleased with the news that the UK government has decided to get serious about backing open source software. While some of this may be inspired by a perceived cost saving, it is also clearly inspired by the increasing understanding of the value of openness and open standards. A very important part of this new policy is that it seems to finally recognise and address the need to look at procedures for tendering and procurement that do not disadvantage open source software unfairly. A more detailed discussion about this, if you are interested, can be found on the OSSWatch blog.

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