What is the OSC?
The Open Source Consortium (OSC) is the trade body representing the Open Source business community in the UK. Our aim is to help our members win more business and promote Free and Open Source Software in the UK.
Membership of the OSC is open to organisations with a proven commitment to providing high-quality, enterprise-ready IT solutions based on Open Source components. |
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Coverage for OSC
The Inquirer has published an article by Mark Ballard about the OSC's letter to the OU on Office 2007, and The Register has an article by Kelly Fiveash about the OSC's letter to the BBC on Windows 7.
There has also been a general widening of the potential audience for DRM-free BBC material as reported by IT Pro Portal. |
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BBC and Windows 7 (continues)
The BBC Fair Trading Unit passed the OSC's complaint to the BBC News website, so the OSC has pointed out that the issue of governance is the responsibility of the Unit or, if it remains unwilling to handle the complaint, the BBC Trust itself.
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BBC and Windows 7
The OSC has started a complaint with the BBC's Fair Trading Unit that the BBC are yet again giving the appearance of advertising a Microsoft product (that, in this case, does not even yet exist).
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OU and MS Office 2007
The Chairman of the OSC, Gerry Gavigan, has written to Professor Brenda Gourley, the Vice Chancellor of the Open University to express disappointment that the OU is supporting an office suite that goes against so much of the tradition of the OU and to encourage the OU to consider implementing ICT policies that are closer to the original objectives of the University.
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