The Register: UK govt seeks to embrace open source software

[Jon Reynolds]

Dusty, this has got to make M$ a little nervous, have they responded to
any of this with their usual smoke and mirrors?

Jon

On Mon, 2001-12-17 at 10:27, Dusty wrote:
> Sounds like they are getting on the right track!  Now if we (the U.S.) would do this same thing.
> 
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> Dusty
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> > 
> > http://www.linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2001-12-17-007-20-NW
> > 
> >  "The UK government has published the first draft of its proposed policy
> > on the use of open source software and is seeking comments from the
> > public. 
> > 
> > The policy essentially seeks to increase the use of open source software
> > at all levels of government and public sector IT provision. Behind this
> > broader acceptance of open source solutions lies a desire to ensure
> > interoperability and the support of open standards and specifications. 
> > 
> > The government is also concerned by the security problems. 'Security of
> > government systems is vital,' says the draft policy. 'Properly
> > configured open source software can be at least as secure as proprietary
> > systems, and open source software is currently subject to fewer Internet
> > attacks.'" 
> > 
> > Complete Story
> > http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/23413.html
> > Policy Draft
> > http://www.govtalk.gov.uk/rfc/rfc_document.asp?docnum=429
> > 
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