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Richard Rothwell  
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 More options 13 June 2008, 06:48
From: "Richard Rothwell" <richa...@m6-it.org>
Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2008 06:48:32 +0100
Local: Fri 13 June 2008 06:48
Subject: Re: [sf-uk-discuss] BECTA
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2008/6/12 Ian Lynch <ian.ly...@zmsl.com>:

> Just in case anyone hasn't heard, we were unsuccessful with the BECTA
> contract. Apparently some company that has no known experience or track
> record in FOSS won it. Looking at the detailed assessment criteria, they
> seem skewed away from FOSS and towards subjective judgements about what
> professional attributes are important in such a project. Of course none
> of that detail was in the spec so I'm afraid I naturally assumed a track
> record of building FOSS communities in the target education sector would
> be important. Clearly that was a critical error. Apologies.

> Ian
> --

1) Ian, you have no cause to apologise.
2) Our only mistake was assuming that Becta would behave honourably.
3) Practically the entire education free software and open source
community in the UK will have been insulted by this decision.

The sooner this ineffective Quango is dismantled the better.

Up to now we have been very polite in our campaigning, I believe the
time for politeness is over.

rgds,
Richard

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