Tories plan open door for open source
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| Mark Thompson, a Cambridge University IT lecturer and businessman
| who is drawing up Osborne's request to make Britain the "open source
| leader of Europe", said that procurement - including the notoriously
| secretive gateway process - might be opened up so that it was easier
| for smaller firms to pay homage to the public purse.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/05/04/tory_opensource/
Related:
Report: Linux, open source greener than Windows
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| A new report from the U.K. Office of Government Commerce about Open
| Source Software Trials in Government, has found that servers running
| Linux could combat the rising problem of e-waste because they last
| up to twice as long as machines running Windows.
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http://searchopensource.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid39_gci1246762,00.html?track=sy184
http://tinyurl.com/38cge3
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