Government backsliding on open source promises
The Liberal Democrats have hit out at the government’s failure to use more open source software, three years after it pledged to avoid “lock-in” to proprietary systems.
The government published a policy document, “Open Source Software: use within UK government” in 2004, promising to consider open source alongside proprietary products in IT procurements.
Contracts would be awarded “on a value for money basis”, the document said, adding: “UK Government will seek to avoid lock-in to proprietary IT products and services.”
But research produced by the Lib Dems shows most government departments use a minimal amount of open source software, with the Department of Work and Pensions using none at all and figures of less than 1% at the former Department for Education and Skills and Northern Ireland Office.
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