On Monday 09 January 2012 14:15:23 Hugo Roy wrote:

Glyn Moody wrote a piece about a new document on procurement issued by the UK cabinet. http://blogs.computerworlduk.com/open-enterprise/2012/01/uk-cabinet-office- betrayal-of-open-standards-confirmed/index.htm

Thanks for sharing this Hugo, I dented it this morning from the fsfe-uk account, but haven't written anything in depth.

This is much unexpected in the context of the recently taken initiative to push open standards and free software. But at this point I have no idea how strong this "Procurement Policy Note" is compared to the other documents.

The news today is not about a change in the Government's stance - it hasn't changed since before Christmas (at least not officialy), to the best of my knowledge. Glynn and Mark Ballard are writing about "leaked" information concerning *why* the previous procurement advice was withdrawn in December. They say that MS lobbying is to blame (no big surprise).

I was rather shocked by Glynn's tone. I hope that he reins in his anger in future, because it seems to me that he will lose credibility as a journalist otherwise, even if his outrage and insults are justified from an FS insider's perspective.

PS: CC'd Sam because I don't know if he's on the list.

For future reference I am already on the policy list :)

Thanks,

Sam.