Skip to main content

Home/ Future of the Web/ Group items tagged UK Open Standards Consultation

Rss Feed Group items tagged

Filter: All | Bookmarks | Topics Simple Middle
Gonzalo San Gil, PhD.

UK Open Standards: Time to act - 1 views

fsfe.org/...standards-consultation.en.html

Open Source standard Ree Software public bodies consultation act governments

shared by Gonzalo San Gil, PhD. on 28 Apr 12 - No Cached
  • Gonzalo San Gil, PhD. on 28 Apr 12
     
    [on 2012-04-26 The Cabinet Office is currently conducting an important consultation on Open Standards The question is whether companies offering Free Software will in future have the opportunity to sell their services to the British government. Whether or not British money will continue to be spent on supporting proprietary standards which lock in public bodies, currently hangs in the balance. The Government has already publicly backed away from a strong definition of what an Open Standard is, and current indications are not at all good. On 12 April 2012, the Cabinet Office published an article indicating that it might lean away from freedom and openness, and towards adopting a definition of Open Standards which would exclude Free Software. FSFE is working with the Free Software Foundation, Open Rights Group, Open Source Consortium, Open Forum Europe, the Open Source Initiative and others, to ensure that strong responses are submitted in favour of freedom. However, without the help of individuals like you, our voices risk being drowned out by those corporate interests who want to keep public money tied up in their proprietary products. What you can do ...]
Paul Merrell

Cabinet Office Acts On Discovery Of Undisclosed Conflict Of Interest - Simon Says... - 0 views

blogs.computerworlduk.com/...index.htm

Microsoft UK Open Standards Consultation

shared by Paul Merrell on 28 Apr 12 - No Cached
  • In a remarkable development last night resonant of the revelations in the Leveson inquiry, the Cabinet Office voided the findings of the first open standards consultation round-table on the grounds that it's facilitator had a previously undisclosed relationship with Microsoft. The news posting on the Cabinet Office web site also announced that an extra month has been added to the process, so that the consultation meeting can be run again.
  • As both ComputerWeekly's Mark Ballard and ComputerWorld's Glyn Moody have discovered, there has been extensive behind-the-scenes manoeuvring to re-open the Government's position on open standards and protect the incumbent suppliers to the government, so the discovery of an over-cozy relationship in this area of the government's business too is no real surprise.
1 - 2 of 2
Showing 20▼ items per page