[CivicAccess-discuss] ComputerWeekly: UK: "Government standards vehicle driven by "clueless f*ckwittery""

[Glen Newton]

Related: "Ban the Microsoft "virus", government told" (March 1 2011)
http://www.computerweekly.com/blogs/public-sector/2011/03/ban-the-microsoft-virus-govern.html

Interesting to hear the 'virus' argument used against Microsoft. But accurate.

-Glen

On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 4:58 PM, Glen Newton <glen.newton at gmail.com> wrote:
> This is an excellent read for those interested in Gov IT standards (a
> double oxymoron?):
> http://www.computerweekly.com/blogs/public-sector/2011/04/government-standards-vehicle-d.html
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> "They include the repeated presentation of proprietary Microsoft
> document formats as options for formal government standards, despite
> government strategy being shaped by the icy grip proprietary formats
> have on the public purse."
>
> "Conservative pragmatism has infected the coalition ICT Strategy with
> the belief that it would be impractical to impose open standards where
> industry already makes common use of de facto formats. The ICT
> Strategy nevertheless promised to make mandation of an open document
> format the first of its formal declarations."
>
> Glen Newton
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