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That for reasons of ethical principle, national policy, EC policy, and pragmatic factors of cost reliability and absence of enforced change, it is desirable that wherever possible software used in the functions of local authorities and their agencies is chose from software whose source code is published under one of the Open licences. That to pursue this, in every procurement of software consideration should be given and documented to Open Source solutions as well as to proprietary ones. Needs work, perhaps. Needs a briefing to go with it. Needs a web page to define all terms briefly and with pointers to the full versions, but printable as a starter. Needs a corps of individuals who are able to demonstrate persisting skills in identifying, installing, maintaining and supporting OSS on a commercial basis organised into or available to sub-contract through, stable companies in the relevant region. Needs one or more company able to be the umbrella for a council-sized bid to provide and integrate software, train users, operate 16-24*365 helpdesk etc. Needs people to speak directly to their councillor, getting across in no more than 5 minutes the essential ideas and starting very very basic, then answering questions as need be. Looking around, all of this exists, and some is to hand - it does need osme organising and then some action. -- From the political Linux desktop of Dr Adrian Midgley http://www.defoam.net/ -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the message body to unsubscribe.