[Digital-Mentor] OT: open source petition

[Dave Briggs]

Hi all

Vaguely off topic but I hope you will forgive me.

This strikes me as being a sensible petition to sign. If you have a
spare minute, please give it a look:

http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/open-source-tic/

"The Department for Communities and Local Government (CLG) is running
a project called Timely Information to Citizens (TIC). As part of this
project, several local authorities are being given funding totalling
approximately £1m to develop software and web services to improve
local information and service provision.

While CLG's aim is that these projects are incorporated into a "best
practice toolkit", we ask the government to reduce duplication of
effort and expense and make this software available for other users at
the earliest opportunity by releasing each package on deployment under
an OSI-approved open source licence.

Though we welcome these projects themselves, as citizens we cannot and
do not support this substantial sum of public money being spent to
create private, proprietary software."

Cheers

Dave

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