[Wolves] Staffordshire, proprietary software, & EU procurement rules

[John Rose]

Re LinuxQuestions member initiated an e-petition to call for a Windows
to Linux migration on the government IT systems.
http://epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/32255

Just tried to sign it & it comes up with:
An email will be sent to you now to confirm your email address. If we're
busy this may take a few hours to arrive, thanks for your patience.
We can't add your signature to the e-petition until you've clicked on
the link in this email.

No email comes from direct.gov (after 2 hours): keeps the number of
signatories down!

PS I hate these Captchas. They are difficult to read accurately. I like
the ones on
http://news.gmane.org/gmane.linux.ubuntu.user