National Open Source Centre launches today in the Houses of Parliament
The National Open Centre (NOC) is launched today by John Hemming MP, in the Houses of Parliament. The NOC will help the UK to benefit from open source and open standards by developing strategic analysis and policy, clarifying opportunities and fostering innovation.
Significant interest in the NOC has already been generated. An Advisory Group of 25 members, has been created, representing small business, multinational organisations, the public sector, education and the open source community. This diversity of interests is being used to guide the NOC's efforts, helping establish the topics of most importance to the UK.
Randy Metcalfe, of OSS Watch, University of Oxford adds “The National Open Centre is an exciting development for positive discussion and debate of open source issues”. Another Advisory Board member Aidan McGuire, Blue Fountain Systems states “The recognition of the importance of OS&S is growing throughout Europe and it is important that the UK is a leader in this initiative” and John Pinner, Clocksoft/ The Linux Emporium adds “The opportunities that open source software and open standards offer are, literally, without limits and we see the NOC as essential to ensuring that this is recognised and acted upon”.
National Open Centre think tank launched this week in England, at the Houses of Parliament.
This news got me wound up for a rant condeming how politics shouldn't determine standards, but the market. Then I ran into this, a Microsoft complaint against IBM for pushing Open XML.
And I realized something important.
Technology decisions have to become political when standards are at stake.
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