[SWLUG] Open government IT projects

[Dave Cridland]

On Mon Jan 22 13:17:40 2007, Bradley, Peter wrote:
> While we're on the subject of petitions, I'm trying to get the Open
> University to use cross platform software for all their teaching and
> learning tools.  I've started a petition at:
> 
> http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/xplatform/

Wouldn't it be better to petition them to use open standards and open 
formats, and/or actively seek to create same? (And the same, really, 
goes for the government code).

Then you could write your own cross-platform learning software.

If the stuff *is* open standard and open format now, then really 
someone should have written the software you want by now - if not, 
it's hardly something for the OU to solve themselves.

Dave.
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