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Government Code Collaborative Falls Short

Posted by michael on from the unclear-on-the-concept dept.

Tom Adelstein writes "This story starts off singing the praises of the Government Open Code Collaborative, then reminds the reader: you discover that it has built one more bureaucracy to oversee its existing bureaucracy, with oversight over the new bureaucracy. Have you ever heard the cliche about prisoners running the asylum? Well, this gated and restrictive open-source government repository fits."

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  1. Re:Is it me, or... by Eldav · · Score: 5, Informative

    No slashdotting here... The URL in the article is wrong, it should read http://www.gocc.gov (a Plone site BTW) instead of http://gocc.org.

  2. Re:Hmmm.. by jacksonj04 · · Score: 3, Informative

    Not really all that offtopic...

    The 'software' I looked at had bits in the blurbs about "To be released Summer 2004" and "Available September 2004". Now, tell me if my clock is wrong, but aren't they like 3 months behind there?

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