It’s Saturday, and we’re sitting around listening to the rich soundscape of the new Hybrid album Disappear Here (there’s a free track from it on Amazon UK). One thing led to another and now we’re listening to their latest dub set (the second one in the list below) on SoundCloud. Blissful.
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This is an important document that needs bringing to the attention of local, regional and national government across Europe (and beyond). It provides a possible answer to the key problem preventing implementation of the many policies that at best mandate and at least permit open source software in government applications. The problem has rarely been the political will; it has usually been that the procurement guidelines in place prevent use of open source.
That’s a situation no government employee has wanted to fix because of the toxic power of suppliers who don’t want it fixed (just see what Microsoft did in Massachusetts). So we’ve had pro-open-source policies neutralised by the tired bureaucracy. But now procurement teams everywhere can now pick up this publication and use it. Problem solved!
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