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Your Tax Dollars Buying Open Source Software

Posted by timothy on from the once-they-have-the-money dept.

Roblimo has a story over at NewsForge about DevIS, a software company that relies on Free and open source software to not just weather but actually do well in the current software economy. Part of the reason may be that the company doesn't preach software philosophy; they just find that combining well-tested (and mostly GPL'd) software tools is the path of least resistance when it comes to building Internet applications. Most of their work is for the Federal government; always nice to see public dollars supporting public software. Can anyone point out other good examples of similar businesses?

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  1. Tax $$$ for Free Software? by Whatthehellever · · Score: 4, Funny

    I've finally found a reason to stop complaining that my tax money isn't being properly used. Now I'll happily pay my taxes!

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    1. Re:Tax $$$ for Free Software? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

      Just be glad you don't get as much goverment as you pay for.

  2. Public money supporting OS by grub · · Score: 4, Funny


    Does RMS' welfare cheques count as another example?

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  3. Not for long by gokubi · · Score: 5, Funny

    Now that we've publicized that DevIS is a bunch of communists, you can be sure that federal grants for this company will mysteriously dry up.

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  4. mmm... $ by goatasaur · · Score: 5, Funny

    I thought our tax dollars were used to market government-approved violent games to our nation's youth. Silly me, it's being used for the development and proliferation of OSS!

    Why do I always feel like I'm waking up from a nightmare?

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  5. Re:I'd rather see... by jimand · · Score: 3, Funny

    Doesn't ninenine.com "repackage someone else's" content to create a "Free Porn" site? Doesn't your stated philosophy here say you should be hiring/paying the, uhh, content providers?

  6. Communists are your friends by Captain+Beefheart · · Score: 4, Funny

    Now, if it was proven DevIS were *terrorists*, we'd already be under a barrage of PSAs telling us open-source funds drug abuse or something.

  7. Re:Right by swillden · · Score: 4, Funny

    Sadly it's the fortune 500 corporate america that has yet to embrace common sense and as they still feel the need to live by the "Nobody ever got fired for buying IBM"

    IBM is selling them Linux!

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