I was just browsing through the No 10 E-Petitions website and came across these two petitions. I signed them and hope you will too ;-)
Please spread them around if you can. Chris -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Encourage Greater Use of Open Source in Government Most government departments are significantly reliant on software from foreign multinationals such as Microsoft. All of these substantial licencing costs then generate funds for foreign corporations, taking money out of our own economy. If the emphasis is put on using Open Source and locally-developed solutions, then the IT investment is redirected towards local IT services employment, benefiting the economy. Existing infrastructure (such as existing desktop operating systems) would not be replaced without good reason, but the intended progression would be towards making less use of foreign commercial software over time. http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/softwareuse/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Stop Teaching Software such as MS Office in Schools, Use Open Office Taxpayers' money is being used to bolster Microsoft's monopoly position in the office suite market by teaching children from an early age only to use Microsoft Word. This practice also wastes money buying licenses when there are free office suites available, such as OpenOffice. If schools switched to using and teaching open source software, more money would be freed up to pay for teaching staff. Students would also not have to pay for proprietary software to continue their studies. http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/teach-oss/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
