[Bradford] Open Source Procurement In Government

[Robert Burrell Donkin]

On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 2:44 PM, John R Hudson
<j.r.hudson at virginmedia.com> wrote:
> On Wednesday 30 November 2011 13:32:53 Robert Burrell Donkin wrote:
>> http://www.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/resource-library/open-source-procurement-to
>> olkit might be of interest to some
>>
>> Robert
>>
> This is pretty impressive, in particular, All about open source and Open
> source options, both of which could be read with profit by anyone thinking
> about deploying ICT.
>
> Some people may have quibbles with parts of them but the overall impression is
> that a lot of sound work has gone into them.

The anti-trust argument is perhaps open to being misconstrued.

As a brand, obviously the government would be wrong to insist on that
brand for a product. That is not to say that the government could not
lawfully require a product license to have certain features (and
indeed does regularly, for example number of users) or require an
outsourced software development team to adopt a particular license.

Robert