Owning The Future - Govt Criticised At Open Source Convention
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| Innovation tends to happen in small groups, and big companies build their
| businesses around them. Later V. Ponaraj, Director (Technology
| Initiatives), Office of the President of India waxed ineloquently about the
| initiatives taken by the Government of India to support and adopt Open
| Source, only to be shot down during the Q&A.
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http://www.contentsutra.com/21986
Becta, WAG and OSS - a missed opportunity?
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| In May 2005, Becta released a report on its investigations into the use
| of OSS in schools, which found that open source software can provide a
| cost-effective and efficient solution to schools' IT needs... A small
| company with fantastically dedicated staff that could provide an
| excellent service to a handful of local schools would not have stood a
| chance against the likes of Serco, government's preferred supplier of
| almost anything.
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| Of course Becta has to cover the whole UK, so can't afford the time to
| assess thousands of local companies, but that just brings us back to
| the question of why it is not helping schools or education authorities
| to do their own specifying and purchasing.
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http://www.pingwales.co.uk/2006/08/25/ossbecta.html
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