Re: [Fsuk-manchester] UK Government Gets Really Serious About Open Source

[Simon Ward]

On Sun, Mar 06, 2011 at 03:51:27PM +0000, Robert Burrell Donkin wrote:
> note that the language used is open source not software libre

I chose not to pick up on that on purpose.  “Open source” is not
defined.  This is maybe something we should get the cabinet office to
define, if not encourage them to talk about “free software” instead.

> more [open source + agile development] using mostly local developers
> is very likely to happen

Not a bad thing in my opinion.

> the question for the community: given a £25 million fund for a single,
> new FOSS development project, what should you develop to maximize
> value to the public sector?

Anything that replaces their archaic dependencies on out‐of‐support
operating systems and IE6, but then I’m a security type so I would say
that.

Simon
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