MP mentions Linux shock!
Speaking to an audience at St Bride’s Church in central London, Shadow Chancellor George Osborne gave the annual Olsen Memorial Lecture entitled ‘Politics and the Media in the Internet Age’.
To quote from his speech
Linux is the open-source operating system that is the main rival to Microsoft Windows.
Here is John Naughton’s slightly grudging assessment.
November 15th, 2006 at 4:56 pm
Question is why there is no strategy to get open source applications in general more widely used in the public sector. Apart from immediate savings on licenses it would increase competition in the software industry and enable further cost savings in the long run as well as wider contributuions from UK based businesses to the benefit of the local economy. Labour for all its talk of reform behaves like a technological dimosaur profligate with the public purse.