From the right, the Conservative Party has blasted Tony Blair for not incorporating open source technology into their overall IT strategy. Conservative member of Parliament and the current Shadow Chancellor has been publicly focusing on the complete lack of open source adoption by the UK government:

[Osborne] condemned the “litany of IT projects that have collapsed or spiralled over budget,” and said: “It’s clear that this has meant billions of pounds wasted and public service reform being hampered.” The shadow chancellor went on to applaud “software that’s developed collectively”, and criticised the government’s strategy of sticking to the major vendors. The result is that “unlike traditional proprietary software, users can access the source code, making it possible for them to tailor the software to their needs and make constant iterative improvements”.

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