Re: [sheflug] Government open source policy

[Richard Ibbotson <richard [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

David 

>Does anyone know what the relationship is between government policy
> and a public body's duties to it. I'm thinking specifically of the
> two below

You'll be very lucky if you get a sensbile reply to any of your 
questions.

> website CMS. They like the open source options but in the next few
> months the preferred provider for the Building Schools for the
> Future scheme's going to be announced and there doesn't seem to be
> any mention of open source at all. My MP hasn't replied yet.

There won't be any mention of open source or Free software.  It's all 
carefully spun up/ spun together / spin / double talk.  Who is your 
MP ?  Just out of curiosity.

My MP replies but we think that it's because I've raised so many 
questions over the doings of this Government at a Euro level that 
they feel they have to answer my questions.  The answers I get are 
carefully manufactured by a civil servant who doesn't know what 
he/she is doing.  What they've done is read the FSF.org pages and 
copy the words from there in the hope that I'm stupid enough to 
believe what they tell me.


-- 
Richard

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