Devil's Advocate: Open source for government

Posted by tadelste on Feb 21, 2006 3:12 PM EDT
Silicon.com; By Martin Brampton
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Despite the UK government's reluctance to embrace open source, Martin Brampton points out the many ways they're suited to each other - the least of which is cost.

The government regularly claims it will reduce the cost of administration through the use of IT. Such a claim is inherently implausible, given the sector's track record in IT projects. Quite apart from that, government appears to be going about things in entirely the wrong way.

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