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Obama Administration Supports Recycling Code and Open Source

Posted by timothy on from the oh-thank-you-for-this-portion dept.

jones_supa writes: The Obama administration is seeking public comments on its open source policy. They have released for public comment a draft Federal Source Code policy to support improved access to custom software code. From the policy document: "This policy requires that, among other things: (1) new custom code whose development is paid for by the Federal Government be made available for reuse across Federal agencies; and (2) a portion of that new custom code be released to the public as Open Source Software (OSS)." Tony Scott, Federal CIO of the US government, mentioned one of the strengths of open source – cost saving. Scott wrote on the White House blog that the U.S. government "can save taxpayer dollars by avoiding duplicative custom software purchases and promote innovation and collaboration across Federal agencies."

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  1. Obama administration supports backdoors by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Insightful

    ... which means that, by definition, it cannot support open source software.
    http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03...

  2. Yes, especially when it comes to encryption by vvaduva · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Yes, they support recycling code...old code..related to encryption.

  3. Re:The BSD and MIT licenses are the only real opti by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Sometimes, "freedom" has to include the freedom to be a douchebag.

    Not "sometimes". Always. It's not freedom otherwise.