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Proprietary technology is a waste of money, says Kroes
"Many authorities have found themselves unintentionally locked into proprietary technology for decades. After a certain point that original choice becomes so ingrained that alternatives risk being systematically ignored, no matter what the potential benefits. This is a waste of public money that most public bodies can no longer afford."
 conferences council eu events foss politics promotion software standards ukgov ukgovoss mjray 07/24/2010 17:38
Present and future threats to software freedom
Slides from a talk at Manchester Free Software
 events foss politics ukgovoss mjray 07/23/2010 21:34
Graham Taylor and Karsten Gerloff on open source in Europe
report with an audio recording
 council eu foss ukgovoss mjray 07/06/2010 22:12
Escape (the) Windows: Open Source and Open Standards under Threat in Europe - Community - ComputerworldUK
As if DEBill wasn't enough, it seems that we're under attack at the EU level again. Don't let them set a rubbish agenda!
 computing digitaluk enterprise eu foss ukgovoss mjray 04/01/2010 13:32
Britain's Digital Economy Bill will cost ISPs £500M, knock 40K poor households offline
Aritcle by Cory Doctorow describing the nightmare of Labour's Digital Economy Bill
 copyright digitaluk enterprise politics privacy ukgov ukgovoss mjray 01/13/2010 15:13
My only prediction for 2010 and it ain’t pretty
"I would like to think that people are smart enough to see the coming danger – especially those of us in the tech industry – and do something to stem this tide. Sadly though we’re too worried about some new shiny toy. Too worried that we don’t have enough followers. Too worried about whether we are among the first to be using some stupid ass service."
 blog copyright digitaluk education foss freeourdata politics rant ukgovoss world mjray 01/01/2010 13:06
Information Technology becomes a UK Election Issue | Sirius Corporation plc
Nice analysis, but only Labour and Conservatives, which doesn't reflect the choice in WsM
 article computing foss ukgov ukgovoss mjray 11/27/2009 14:34
Examples of proprietary control by Alessandro Rubini
Why free software matters: software licence refused = trapped residents cars
 council ethics foss ukgovoss mjray 10/20/2009 12:55
NonMSschools - epetition response | Number10.gov.uk education foss ukgovoss mjray 09/30/2009 17:06
GeoDjango and the UK postcode database « lamby
"Usage of this data is almost certainly a copyright violation"
 foss freeourdata standards ukgovoss webapp mjray 09/30/2009 16:44
UK needs to be more open to open source | IT PRO council foss promotion software ukgovoss mjray 09/25/2009 12:32
FLOSS and Grants :: Copyrighteous blog floss grant ukgov ukgovoss mjray 07/11/2009 17:35
Open-source-tic - epetition response council foss internet standards ukgovoss mjray 06/26/2009 18:14
Swedish pirates capture EU seat (BBC) copyright council eu foss internet isp media police promotion social ukgov ukgovoss mjray 06/09/2009 15:53
Published articles: Google book settlement has librarians worried () copyright library licensing rant ukgovoss mjray 05/06/2009 13:01
librarian.net: unintended consequences of Google Books project (jessamyn) copyright library licensing rant ukgovoss mjray 05/06/2009 12:57
Have your say on Digital Britain « Digital Britain discussion site council internet ukgovoss mjray 03/02/2009 16:01
Expand UK Governement to level the playing field? council foss promotion rant ukgovoss mjray 02/25/2009 18:18
I think you’re bang-on that the procurement process needs to change. I’ll love it if I’m wrong, but this looks like the “lip service as usual” which I’ve seen in the last 10 years working on FOSS in the UK. When government actually starts buying FOSS from typical FOSS service providers and not just the IBMs of this world, then I’ll be happy!
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