[Fsfe-uk] e-innovation? only if proprietary

[Graham Seaman]

Back in March the government announced the e-innovations funding for 
local authorities. The only big free software project was led Rossendale 
council which got half a million to look at migrating councils to 'open 
source' (one of the other councils in the group was Newham, and we 
already know what happened to them). The register was all chirpy about it:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/03/17/uk_gov_backs_163_1m/

Here's the list of funded local authority projects today:

http://www.localegov.gov.uk/page.cfm?pageID=823&Language=eng

Guess which is the only project to have been dropped? 

This wave of  reversals of direction just has to be coming from the top...

Graham