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Advocating Open Source Within the Gov't

Posted by Hemos on from the making-headway-within-the-powers-that-be dept.

There's an interesting piece running on Newsforge concerning advocacy of Open Source within the (US) Federal Government. The Feds, as we've talked about here before, are caught in an interesting cross fire - and based on personal experience, I can tell you that they are looking at it. Carpe Diem, folks.

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  1. Re:Of course the government should use open source by Em+Emalb · · Score: 5, Insightful

    from above:
    "but it seems in this country that the people who end up working for the government are the ones who couldn't cut it in the private sector, especially in the IT field"

    Uhm, how bout those guys that pretty much invented the architecture of the net as we know it today?

    There are TONS of highly skilled people working in the government, you just never hear about them. And, believe it or not, when the government gets its hand on a genius IT guru, he or she is VERY WELL compensated, since the government knows they can go else where at any given time.

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