White House petition: release government-developed software as open source (petitions.whitehouse.gov) 4 points by MikeTaylor 13y ago ↗ HN
[–] samstave 13y ago ↗ Will never happen to a great degree, though there are exceptions.There are two sides to the .gov coin; public interest and national defense.On the public interest side, there already is opensource for some major initiatives, like where HL7 came from - on the defense side... youll be SOL.The government pay trillions to contractors to make really complex stuff. Lockheed will not be releasing guidance code anytime in the next millennium.
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[ 2.7 ms ] story [ 14.8 ms ] threadThere are two sides to the .gov coin; public interest and national defense.
On the public interest side, there already is opensource for some major initiatives, like where HL7 came from - on the defense side... youll be SOL.
The government pay trillions to contractors to make really complex stuff. Lockheed will not be releasing guidance code anytime in the next millennium.