The most surprising thing about George Osborne's recent Open Source announcements was the lack of backlash. That the UK's Conservative Party, possibly the next government, have endorsed a report that they comissioned, a report that recommends Open Standards, Open Procurement and Open Source as the pillars of a Conservative Government's Public Sector IT policy was, on the whole, accepted as not only inevitable, but in many parts of the IT press regarded as one of the few instances in recent times of a prominent politician talking sense on the subject of IT!