Re: [Dorset] OT: Cabinet Office Ditches Open Standards in IT
On 03/11/2012 08:20, Terry Coles wrote: > Remember the Open Standards Consultation that took place in the Spring? Part > of the discussion is below. > > Well the Consultation worked! The new Government Policy on Open Standards > has > been published and FSFE is *very* impressed! See: > http://fsfe.org/news/2012/news-20121101-02.en.html Excellent - thanks for the update Terry.Had a quick scan through and the principles seem sound although somewhat pre-emptive defensive to a cynic like me ;-) regards, Simon -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2012-11-06 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ New thread on mailing list: mailto:dorset@mailman.lug.org.uk How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://goo.gl/4Xue
Re: [Dorset] OT: Cabinet Office Ditches Open Standards in IT
On Monday 05 Nov 2012 14:28:39 Simon P Smith wrote: > On 03/11/2012 08:20, Terry Coles wrote: > > Remember the Open Standards Consultation that took place in the Spring? > > Part of the discussion is below. > > > > Well the Consultation worked! The new Government Policy on Open Standards > > has been published and FSFE is *very* impressed! See: > > http://fsfe.org/news/2012/news-20121101-02.en.html > > Excellent - thanks for the update Terry.Had a quick scan through and > the principles seem > sound although somewhat pre-emptive defensive to a cynic like me ;-) Well since I posted that there have been some rumbles that the Policy doesn't apply to COTS software, implying that Government Depts can continue to buy software from Microsoft, Oracle, etc. However, this: http://www.computerweekly.com/blogs/public-sector/2012/11/uk-insists-open- standards-orde.html seems to dispute that. Like all things, we'll have to wait and see how it works. -- Terry Coles 64 bit computing with Kubuntu Linux -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2012-11-06 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ New thread on mailing list: mailto:dorset@mailman.lug.org.uk How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://goo.gl/4Xue
Re: [Dorset] OT: Cabinet Office Ditches Open Standards in IT
On Mon, 05 Nov 2012 16:46:13 +, d-...@hadrian-way.co.uk said: > Well since I posted that there have been some rumbles that the Policy > doesn't apply to COTS software By "COTS", do you mean "commercial off the shelf"? If so, where did you hear that? -- We're looking for smart Linux people: http://www.tiger-computing.co.uk/jobs -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2012-11-06 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ New thread on mailing list: mailto:dorset@mailman.lug.org.uk How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://goo.gl/4Xue
Re: [Dorset] OT: Cabinet Office Ditches Open Standards in IT
On Monday 05 Nov 2012 19:31:56 Keith Edmunds wrote: > On Mon, 05 Nov 2012 16:46:13 +, d-...@hadrian-way.co.uk said: > > Well since I posted that there have been some rumbles that the Policy > > doesn't apply to COTS software > > By "COTS", do you mean "commercial off the shelf"? If so, where did you > hear that? Yes. That is the meaning of COTS. I initially heard it on a Guardian Blog on Saturday, but the full story is in the link I gave in my earlier post. -- Terry Coles 64 bit computing with Kubuntu Linux -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2012-11-06 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ New thread on mailing list: mailto:dorset@mailman.lug.org.uk How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://goo.gl/4Xue
[Dorset] Bournemouth Pub Meeting Tonight, Tuesday 2012-11-06.
Hi, The pub meet is tonight at The Broadway at 8pm. For those that haven't been before look out for Terry and his stuffed penguin. http://dorset.lug.org.uk/wiki/doku.php?id=meetings:pub http://dorset.lug.org.uk/wiki/doku.php?id=members#terry_coles As the first web page above says, we are often in the pub's "snug", a small room off one end of the bar. But it isn't reserved for us so we're sometimes to be hunted down elsewhere. Cheers, Ralph. -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2012-11-06 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ New thread on mailing list: mailto:dorset@mailman.lug.org.uk How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://goo.gl/4Xue
