[Lincs] E-petition for Linux systems for government business

[Dave Harding]

Signed and forwarded to the Hull LUG mailing list

Dave

On 2 April 2012 20:18, Rebecca Newborough <bobobex at bobobex.org> wrote:

> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Going It Alone <reggaemaker at gmail.com>
> Date: Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 7:59 PM
> Subject: [Nottingham] using Linux for government business
> To: Nottingham at mailman.lug.org.uk
>
> "we all know that the UK Government has dallied over using Linux for
> government business, but they appear to stall regularly and only ever
> include a small subset of functions in their considerations. So, I've
> started a e-petition on the government website calling for a full
> review with a view to migrating all systems to open source, and
> request that you put your name to it."
>
> Thread can be found here:
> http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/general-10/uk-residents-937312/
>
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> Hi All
>
> This mail appeared on the Nottingham LUG mailing list - it's asking for
> signatures on an e-petition to get our government to use Linux. You can
> sign the e-petition here: http://epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/32255
>
> Regards
>
> Becky Newborough
>
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