The FSF in the United Kingdoms

headers Jon Grant | 7 Sep 13:35

Lucky the figures were provided in CSV format!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-14765545

Can Whitehall open up to open source?

What's Whitehall's attitude to software procurement? A cynic might sum
it up as "nobody ever got sacked for buying Microsoft".

The current government has vowed to change the civil service mindset
that has always preferred to spend money with the biggest firms and
has been conservative about open source software.

The Cabinet Office Minister Francis Maude has vowed to create a level
playing field for open source as part of a drive to cut costs.

Now a BBC Freedom of Information (FOI) request has given us a glimpse
of how big the challenge will be.

We asked government departments for details of how much they had spent
on proprietary software over the past year, and how much open source
software they had acquired.

The responses have been dribbling in for months now (available as a
Google doc, an Excel spreadsheet or as separate .csv files below), and
they've varied from detailed accounts of software and expenditure, to
refusals to provide any information on the grounds that it would cost
too much.

Our excellent FOI researcher Julia Ross has compiled a spreadsheet of

Mon	Tue	Wed	Thu	Fri	Sat	Sun

			1	2	3	4
5	6	7	8	9	10	11
12	13	14	15	16	17	18
19	20	21	22	23	24	25
26	27	28	29	30

2	May 2012
6	April 2012
4	February 2012
1	January 2012
4	September 2011
2	August 2011
15	May 2011
1	April 2011
6	March 2011
21	February 2011
6	January 2011
1	October 2010
20	September 2010
8	August 2010
22	July 2010
2	March 2010
4	February 2010
1	January 2010
4	December 2009
8	November 2009
4	October 2009
6	September 2009
13	August 2009
5	July 2009
7	June 2009
3	May 2009
177	March 2009
21	February 2009
1	January 2009
1	November 2008
13	October 2008
10	September 2008
6	August 2008
17	July 2008
4	June 2008
23	May 2008
114	April 2008
28	March 2008
98	February 2008
422	January 2008
19	December 2007
27	November 2007
12	October 2007
32	September 2007
3	August 2007
17	July 2007
25	June 2007
31	May 2007
19	April 2007
51	March 2007
37	February 2007
56	January 2007
71	December 2006
73	November 2006
56	October 2006
35	September 2006
4	August 2006
29	July 2006
26	June 2006
46	May 2006
70	April 2006
32	March 2006
58	February 2006
31	January 2006
8	December 2005
16	November 2005
28	October 2005
17	September 2005
8	August 2005
50	July 2005
85	June 2005
20	May 2005
13	April 2005
106	March 2005
59	February 2005
57	January 2005
29	December 2004
140	November 2004
186	October 2004
93	September 2004
59	August 2004
57	July 2004
51	June 2004
186	May 2004
110	April 2004
41	March 2004
89	February 2004
186	January 2004
120	December 2003
77	November 2003
238	October 2003
140	September 2003
170	August 2003
149	July 2003
265	June 2003
245	May 2003
37	April 2003
23	March 2003
43	February 2003
23	January 2003
56	December 2002
24	November 2002
35	October 2002
25	September 2002
20	August 2002
81	July 2002
21	June 2002
132	May 2002
285	April 2002
93	March 2002
1	December 2001
1	January 1998

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