Re: [Hampshire] UK Government backs open source?

2009-02-26 Thread Stuart Matheson
I'm from Australia so I'm not sure about how things work in the UK but here is my suggestion anyway. In Australia we have volunteer fire fighters that help out when things get bad (like they have just recently). The Volunteers arrange with their managers at work so that they'll be able to rush off

Re: [Hampshire] UK Government backs open source?

2009-02-26 Thread Phillip Chandler
On Thu, 2009-02-26 at 01:43 +, Stuart Sears wrote: > Phillip Chandler wrote: > > On Wed, 2009-02-25 at 14:06 +, Simon Capstick wrote: > >> Does anyone believe the government will actually follow through > >> with this one? > >> > >> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7910110.stm > >>

Re: [Hampshire] UK Government backs open source?

2009-02-25 Thread Stuart Sears
Phillip Chandler wrote: > On Wed, 2009-02-25 at 14:06 +, Simon Capstick wrote: >> Does anyone believe the government will actually follow through >> with this one? >> >> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7910110.stm >> >> Simon > > You must have missed this bit : > > "Open source softw

Re: [Hampshire] UK Government backs open source?

2009-02-25 Thread Peter Salisbury
2009/2/25 Simon Capstick : > Does anyone believe the government will actually follow through with > this one? > > http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7910110.stm > > Simon Looks good to me; it's one more tool for those of us trying to get FOSS into schools etc. I loved the bizarre government dou

Re: [Hampshire] UK Government backs open source?

2009-02-25 Thread Phillip Chandler
On Wed, 2009-02-25 at 14:06 +, Simon Capstick wrote: > Does anyone believe the government will actually follow through with > this one? > > http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7910110.stm > > Simon You must have missed this bit : "Open source software will be adopted "when it delivers be

[Hampshire] UK Government backs open source?

2009-02-25 Thread Simon Capstick
Does anyone believe the government will actually follow through with this one? http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7910110.stm Simon -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --