tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22202011.post-13177848756621279192008-03-11T22:15:00.000Z2008-03-11T22:15:00.000ZShock horror politicians from opposing parties have looked at an issue and both come to similar conclusions. <BR/><BR/>Believe it or not in the rest of the world - sensible people with all sorts of different viewpoints do the same thing all of the time. Perhaps instead of getting into arguments about whose idea it was first all parties could just agree to agree and get on with implementation - and actually if you get below the rhetoric I suspect that agreement could easily be reached on 70-80% of public policy (I could list the areas where the Tories now agree with Labour policies but that would be a little pendantic and would take quite a lot of time) - which would then leave more time for a rational debate about the other 30%<BR/><BR/><BR/>And I think you will find that Tom Watson has had enough of a interest in this area for a long time, and he did invite others to contribute through his blog, to have reached his own conclusions<BR/><BR/>On a personal level, I do think that a little sceptism is perhaps needed when it comes to open source programming - there are some consultants who would like to nothing better than sell over-engineered open source solutions, and embracing open source does not mean giving up all the necessary skills in project selection and management - which are sadly of a pretty poor standard in both the public and private sectors (perhaps thinking about how these can be improved is somthing else the politicians could agree upon)tory boys never grow uphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11172736984147732661noreply@blogger.com