Open Source software is the only way to deliver sustainable savings in public sector IT

mtaylor — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 00:00:00 +0100

Things could hardly be tougher in the Whitehall front line. Last year Gordon Brown made it clear in his budget speech just what he expects – 4% annual growth in spending on front line services financed out of just 2% overall budget growth.

Enacting this latter day miracle of loaves and fishes is not going to be easy. But it will not happen at all unless Whitehall ends its chronic failure to use mar [...]

Freewash, fake beards, and the enclosure of the software commons

mtaylor — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 00:00:00 +0100

The 20th February 2008 was one of those 'Microsoft moments', when suddenly, the world changed. Just like when they 'got' the network (and we got NT), or they 'got' the Internet (and we got 'Internet Explorer'). This time they 'got' Open Source and Open Standards and the company is about to make another of their legendary radical transformations... or so they would [...]

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Open Source software is the only way to deliver sustainable savings in public sector IT

Freewash, fake beards, and the enclosure of the software commons