Just this week, in a reply to an MP’s request for an update on government progress to open standards and open source software the Minister for the Cabinet Office replied: We are strongly in favour of using open source software… Continue Reading
Open Standards, FRAND, and FOSS Thursday 29 March 2012, London Cabinet Office is consulting on Open Standards until 3 May 2012. Our friends the BCS Open Source Software Group are staging an open discussion meeting which aims to unravel the… Continue Reading
BBC and Apple We have started a complaint with the BBC that editorial guidance needs to be enforced more rigorously in order to avoid product advertising in editorial. Long time readers of this website might be interested to know that… Continue Reading
We were concerned that Cabinet Office inexplicably formally withdrew the first ever govt definition of an open standard. However and at last they’ve published consultation on a new definition. First off, credit where credit is due. The government is proposing… Continue Reading
The Commons Science and Technology has just published a report on cyber crime Apparently the internet can provide an opportunity for criminals and criminal behaviour and there are dangers for everyday users of the internet too. No sh*t, Sherlock? What… Continue Reading
OSC joins Information Standards Board for Education, Skills and Children’s Services All part of our commitment to open standards We’ve just been invited to participate in the standards work of the Department for Education. It’s all part of the required… Continue Reading
As I observed during the Governmet IT saga, AKA “Govt IT – a recipe for rip-offs”: A simple analysis of the time line of the Inquiry shows a remarkable tendency for the Government and those we might consider to be… Continue Reading
I have a uneasy feeling about Silicon Roundabout. It seems like the Californian gold rush, where huge profits could be made: selling picks, shovels and blue jeans A recent BBC Radio programme seems to indicate parallels: Peter Day weighs up… Continue Reading
Today two interesting items have been published. The London School of Economics has published a report Total cost of ownership of open source software (pdf) detailing all the ways open source is a good idea and then there’s Mark Ballard’s… Continue Reading
With thanks to Bristol Wireless we find yet another government other than the UK Government is failing to find reasons not to use open source software (oss). It would seem that the French government is stimulating competition (sic) and apparently… Continue Reading