Open Source Should Be Used By Government, Say The Tories
While I’ve not delved too deeply into this one – and I doubt I could delve as much as Microsoft’s lawyers will, the proposal (from the Tory party) on IT projects run by the government makes some sensible sounding recommendations. The first is the headline one, with the report saying that projects should make more use of Open Source projects. Rather than buying complicated CMS systems for websites and projects, there should be consideration to just use an installation of WordPress; Open Office is a viable alternative; that sort of stuff. Which is all good – WordPress has stability through
