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Massachusetts Builds Open-Source Public Repository

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the seeing-the-light dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Massachusetts on Wednesday took the wraps off a new software repository designed to let government agencies make more efficient use of open-source software. The repository will be managed by the Government Open Code Collaborative, a newly formed group of seven states and four municipalities that will contribute and download open-source software and proprietary software designed by government agencies for their use."

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  1. John Effing Kerry is a Massachusetts Asshole by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    is that what this is about?

  2. Re:Massachusetts Information Technology Division by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    fuck you. massachusetts sucks. you people are assholes. you can't drive, your dialect is disgusting, and you have the inability to control your bowel movements. massachusetts = shit.

  3. Sharing?? What are they, Communists?? by serutan · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Wow, I can hear the dominoes falling now. State governments using software they didn't have to pay for multiple times? No recurring license fees in the millions of dollars every year? Depriving software vendors the right to lock in their share of our tax money? Don't these pinkoes know they are chipping away the foundations of capitalism? Next thing you know, it will be illegal to get paid to write code! Slippery slope, slippery slope. The government should be setting an example for the rest of us by making sure someone else owns everything they do!