On 29/01/10 22:14, alan c wrote: > A third attempt at a published Government strategy. It looks even more > like it means business than the preceding ones. > > Open Source, Open Standards and Re-Use: Government Action Plan > http://www.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/media/318020/open_source.pdf
This has been discussed at length. The Action Plan itself is pretty good, but unfortunately the Cabinet Office seem to have little or no power to actually police or enforce it. If you are interested follow some of the links on my blog post here: http://www.theopensourcerer.com/2010/01/28/uk-gov-updates-open-source-policy/ Another interesting snippet of news today is what has apparently happened in Denmark... http://jan.wildeboer.net/2010/01/denmark-goes-odf-only-odf-sorry-ooxml/ There is more around the net on this too... Al -- The Open Learning Centre http://www.theopenlearningcentre.com -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
