Governments, Beyond the Open Source Hype

An anonymous reader writes "ForeignPolicy.com takes a look at Open Source as it applies to governments and some of the reasons that a governing body may or may not like OSS. From the article: 'Governments around the world are enchanted by open-source software. Unlike proprietary software, for which the code is kept secret, the open-source variety can be copied, modified, and shared. [...] Trouble is, the benefits of open source are not always so clear-cut. Software is too complicated a creation to be captured in rhetoric, and assertions about some of the technical benefits of open source fail to tell the whole story.'"

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Re:Its the money, first and foremost

[Jim_Callahan]

There's also the danger of them asking why the overall size of the budget is the same, taxes have increased, and schools and roads don't appear to be getting any more funding, if so much money has been saved. (Or rather, the danger of your opponent asking it in the next election year.