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At the moment a majority of local authorities not investigating the possible using software that is produced from sources which include Open Source (FOSS/FLOSS) software. In fact they are only reviewing from commercial software suppliers and the idea of looking in to Open Source software doesn't even gets a look in. By doing this they are inveterately wasting public money, which could be put to a better use and spent on supply services to the general public. Also there is serious risk that at a future date we might not be able to access these files as support for these files formats could be revoked at any time in the future by the commercial suppliers. By using commercial software which is using undocumented file formats it would render the nations history unassailable by future people of our nation.

Current signatories

Andrew Guard, the Petition Creator, joined by:

• Richard Ablitt
• Robert Daniell
• Malvin Wall
• Andrew Main
• L MacDonald
• Robert Whittaker
• P Chandler
• Jamie Smith
• Graham Short
• James Legg
• Steve Dobson
• Matthew Macdonald-Wallace
• Paul Brook
• Adam J Purcell
• Paul Shepard
• Thomas David Dalladay-Morgan
• Karl E. Jørgensen
• Stephen Aitken
• Andrew Smith
• Chris Bray
• Colin Trueman
• Andrew Halsall
• Jonathan Dilks
• John Green
• Mark Burns
• Matthew Gavigan(Liverpool)
• Shane Kelly
• Geoffrey Clare
• A E Lawrence
• Robert G Watson
• Mark Holderness
• M Packer
• David Claughton
• Tim Jones
• Roderick Euan MacLean BSc
• Adam John Trickett
• Sam Smith
• Terry Piper
• Brian White
• Matthew Hardy
• Carl Anderson
• Riaz Sobrany
• Daniel Bond
• John Langham-Service
• Martin Woolley
• Sam Thornton
• S.R.Sutherland
• Christopher Staite
• Walter R.P. Scott
• James Service
• James Porter
• Gareth Howells
• Fuchsia Arnold
• Daniel Philip Weatherill
• Mark Trotman
• Vusa Moyo
• Ben Houghton
• Mark Gilbert
• Astrid de Wijn
• David Bailey
• Lewis James Jiggens
• Thomas Kluyver
• Chris Phillips
• Simon Hobson
• David Nelson
• Joe MacMahon
• Walter Phimister
• James Wilson
• Andy Crake
• Neil Hollow
• Laura Donaghy
• Alan Campbell
• Juan Canham
• Hariharan Raju
• Gordon Mitchell
• Gregory Auger
• Andrew Mair
• Daniel Davies
• Sam tygier
• Stephen Parkes
• Adam Douglass
• Pete Jenkins
• jamie Curle
• Christopher Kerr
• Peter Maxwell
• James Thompson
• Dan Benson
• Rob Elliott
• Richard Ghost
• David Mattison
• Craig Skimins
• Lambros Lambrou
• Amir Taaki
• Jane Roberts
• Keith Scott
• Daniel Smith
• Paul Roberts
• Chris O'Rawe
• Dr Michael J Piff
• James McGuigan
• Adrian Redgers
• Guang Duo Zhang
• Thomas Hayward
• Geoff March
• Robin Staple
• Michael Fenton
• Andrew Tomlin
• Matthew Morris
• Piers Meynell
• Paul Qureshi
• Jonathan Preston
• Yorkie
• mark ellis
• Rob Morris
• Tom Bushby
• Steve Aynsley
• Atul Sharma