On Thu, 08 Mar 2007 at 10:05:57PM +0000, Daniel Pope wrote:
> Adam Trickett wrote:
> > On Thursday 08 March 2007 21:13, Andy Random wrote:
> >> The government could save more than 600 million a year if it used more
> >> open source software, the shadow chancellor has estimated.
> >>
> >> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/6430069.stm
> >>
> > I spotted that and was quite surprised. I expected the Tories to be more in
> > favour of handing more money over to already super rich monopolies.
>
> Whatever you may think of Tories, they do have a developed sense of
> value-for-money.
They (and others) also have a tendency to line their and their friends
pockets at our expense. Not that I'm cynical about politicians or anything...
> Notice that they don't cite the freedom of information and transparency
> which has been a driving force for government migration to open-source
> in other countries.
I don't think anyone in government or the civil service likes open or
transparency, just think what would happen if we knew how incompetent
our government really was...
I think I've watched too many Yes Minister and Yes Prime Minister episodes!
--
Adam Trickett
Overton, HANTS, UK
With ... the fact that Linux has become so easy to install that
certain species of bacteria are now being hired by MIS departments,
what was once the domain of rigorously trained, highly specialised
professionals has devolved into the Dark Land of the Monkeys.
-- Greg Knauss
