Government Open Source Adoption
This cluster discusses governments' use, development, funding, and mandating of open source software, including arguments for requiring FOSS in public projects, taxpayer benefits, and replacing proprietary alternatives.
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Really cool! Wish more government funded organizations publish open source software.
Don't expect government to go open source. Use open source to supersede government functionality.
Because governments don't back FOSS like they should.
Excellent, good for them! I don't understand why other governments don't follow suit, or why people are opposed to it. There might be some valid cons about requiring the use of FOSS (e.g. LibreOffice vs MS Office), but the part about requiring government sponsored code to be released as open source is clearly good for governments. Having the code freely open is good leverage against greed and good insurance for vendor failures.
Call me crazy, but I don't think any government should be running closed source software for anything where there exists an open source alternative.
Would it be possible that the US government create its own open source software? has that been done before?
Guys, pls say that government-funded open source projects are fine, otherwise prepare to get downvoted just because it is.
Serious question - can governments put mandates on open source software? How would that work? How could it work?
More of a reason to stay away from that, think about it why does Gov run open source website, answer : so they can control what software is made and what it can do on the free web.
No government should buy closed source anything for obvious reasons.