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We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to insist that the Defence Procurement Agency challenge BAE Systems' decision to base UK warships' Combat Management Systems on Microsoft Windows.

Recently BAE Systems have made the decision to base all future warship Combat Management Systems (CMS) on Microsoft Windows. Most of BAE's own Software Engineers agree that this is inappropriate, and atleast one has been sacked because of it. We demand that the DPA challenge this decision, as it is madness to place the defence of the realm (apparently this decision will affect the Vanguard class nuclear missilesubmarines too) on technology owned and operated by a foreign corporation. Windows' unreliability is well known in software engineering circles. Action must be taken to avert future disasters and loss of life amongst service personnel.

(note: this petition is a re-submission of a previous request. I was unaware that links to other websites were against site rules).

Current signatories

Jonathon Cowley, the Petition Creator, joined by:

• Tim Evans
• Steve Webb
• Brian Henderson
• David Whitmore
• Richard Ablitt
• D Porritt
• Ian Mills
• Dr Peter Dickman
• Peter Bailey
• Kevin Walker
• Stephen Strowes
• Scott Porter
• William Barrett
• John W Patterson
• Dawn Marlow
• Colin Riley
• Jamie McHale
• Greig Stewart
• Douglas Mason
• Robin Donaldson
• Mark Shannon
• Steven Calder
• Dr Gareth P McSorley
• Steven Edgar
• Dan Smith
• Ross McIlroy
• Edmund Fitzjohn
• haydn john latham
• samuel duckfield
• s.r.sutherland
• Keith Smith
• Robert Britt-Hazard
• Robin Layfield
• Geoffrey Clare
• J Lyons
• Peter Saffrey
• Mitchell Kent
• Alan Campbell
• arron martin zeus Brown
• Richard Cant
• Caroline Langensiepen
• David Manley
• Joshua Lock
• Martin Garton
• David Pilditch
• Jeremy Ryle
• phelim Brady
• Dave Bucknall
• James Porter
• Brian Hardy
• Dennis North
• C.SMITH
• Mark Thurston
• Edward Hilton
• Ben Nairn
• David Scanlon
• Colette Kingsbury
• Adam Sheppard
• I Sutherland
• Ian M. Brown
• Tim Lovatt
• Christopher Kerr
• Geoff Mackenzie
• Derek Pearson
• P Chandler
• Paul Faulkner
• julian gardner
• ah
• Darren Terry
• Andrew Cannon
• John Holmes
• Chris Mason
• Matthew Gavigan(Liverpool)
• Jeremy Drew
• A Lawrence MA DPhil
• Roderick Euan MacLean BSc
• Christopher Allen
• Chris Godfrey
• Matthew Hardy
• Phillip Evans
• Daniel Bond
• Martin Woolley
• D Bennell
• Sam Thornton
• Anthony Springall
• David Navin
• Dave Kimber
• Harsha Sri-Narayana
• Anthony McConnell
• Edward Bezant
• Rory Fitzpatrick
• James Service
• Anthony Cartwright
• James Sutherland
• Crispin Cooper
• Gareth Howells
• Philip Groves
• Derek Wiltshire
• John Hawthorn
• Adam Foxton
• Peter Cope
• Daniel Philip Weatherill
• Mark Trotman
• John Riley C.Eng MIET
• Martin Deane, Green Party
• Diki Thomas
• Graeme McIntosh
• Alistair Gunn
• Mark Wilkins
• Dr Richard Hall-Wilton
• Simon Hobson
• Walter Phimister
• Andy Crake
• Robin Bettridge
• peter reed
• Evangeline Joy Downie
• Brendon Lucas
• Ivor Cogdell
• Stephen James Rawlinson
• Roger Sibley
• luke daley
• James Williams
• Joseph McGuire
• E Sanders
• David A Skinner
• Hugh Wallace
• david tyler
• Mark Taylor
• Peter Maxwell
• vincent crow
• Colin Burgess
• Richard Ross-Langley
• Richard Ghost
• Calum Polwart
• Iain Grierson
• graham wallis
• Nat Queen
• scott bradley
• Craig Skimins
• Ian Drewett BSc. MSc.
• Martin Ouseley
• Christopher Winton
• Michael jones
• Matthew Bland
• Paul Roberts
• Paul Francis
• Ian William Crawford
• Peter Maunder
• John Scott
• philip camp
• Gareth Bowman
• Chris Caven
• Anita Caven