[HLUG] Main article in Computing Weekly about UK Govt and open source

[Pete]

Funny timing Jools ! Your post has arrived alongside a message from the 
Cabinet Office Open Data dpt. responding to my complaint about yet 
another dumb pdf. It's taken them a week to acknowledge the email, let's 
see about a resolution - all I am trying to do is take them up on the 
offer of the same document in a different file format.

MtG
Pete

On 08/02/13 17:36, Julian Robbins wrote:
> Hi
>
> There's a very interesting article about UK Govt and the uptake (or
> partial) failure of uisng open source.
>
> http://www.computing.co.uk/ctg/feature/2241042/levelling-the-playing-field-open-source-in-the-public-sector
>
> Its interesting as this is the front page article and often in the past
> Computing magazine just features the industries' big boys
> and proprietary software world.
>
> Well worth a read - at least the govt seems to be slowly getting there ....
> but needs to do more to get local councils and govt depts to abandon MS
> office and realise there is another way ....
>
> Julian