[Herts] E-petition for use of open source by our Government

[Paul Scally]

Hi,

We must keep trying, this item appeared on anther LUG mailing list.

https://submissions.epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/32255

Paul S

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Migrate all government IT to Linux based systems

Responsible department: Her Majesty's Treasury

In these austere times it seems that UK government is looking to save
money everywhere except in it's own "people nuetral" infrastructure. Up
to now all savings have come at a cost to the population. However, the
vast majority of UK government IT systems are still running on Windows
based systems, which come with hefty licensing costs.

Linux operating systems have fully matured and are used by some of the
largest institutions and governments in the world. Coming with no
licesnsing costs, following initial migration costs and training costs
the savings would be substantial.

We therefore petition the government to undertake a full review with a
view to migrating systems to open source systems as soon as possible,


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