Recently on the blog

• Select Committee: internet unsafe on a PC* (who knew?)
• In another serendipitous co-incidence UK gov announces OSS desktop trial
• Open Data Institute - what could go wrong with that?
• LSE study for UK Gov... OSS has lower TCO (who knew?), will it pass the "so what? test
• While we wait (cont p.94) the French Govt gets on with it

Recent FOI Requests

• Which Department? How many seats?
• Decision to describe Open Source Advisory Panel as "established"
• Terms of reference and activities of the Open Source Advisory Panel
• Steps taken by DCLG to improve document interoperability
• Avoiding ICT lock-in costs in West Sussex

Latest Resources

• International Legal Reference
• Building Open Source Communities
• FOSS and governance - a lawyer writes
• European Interoperability Framework v2 - a lawyer writes
• FOSS Licensing Primer

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