qwertyphilia » Open source http://qwertyphilia.com Creating better web content Sun, 14 Feb 2010 17:18:09 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 UK Government boost for open source (hopefully) http://qwertyphilia.com/2009/02/uk-government-boost-for-open-source-hopefully/ http://qwertyphilia.com/2009/02/uk-government-boost-for-open-source-hopefully/#comments Wed, 25 Feb 2009 19:14:02 +0000 James Baverstock http://qwertyphilia.com/?p=739 The UK Government yesterday announced it wants to promote the use of open source software in the public sector. There’s a good discussion of this on the Guardian’s technology blog:  UK government puts open source software on equal footing for procurement.

From the point of view of improving value for money in public sector website development,  I think this is definitely good news -  particularly if it boosts the use of open source content management systems over their proprietary cousins. The policy also contains a welcome commitment to open formats for information published on government websites.

Andrew Donoghue has a funny take on the story at ZDNet: UK Government reckons this open source thingy could catch on maybe.

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