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Obama Administration Supports Recycling Code and Open Source
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."
... which means that, by definition, it cannot support open source software.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03...
Yes, they support recycling code...old code..related to encryption.
Sasha: Im all done with my loop, can I return to main()?
Barack: Now, sasha, what did i say about recycling code? check with Malia and see if you can use data from her constructor instead?
Malia: My constructor doesnt handle 32 bit integers, only 64. Sasha wont redo her booleans.
Michelle Barack: And for god sake use a pointer. we're not made of address space you know...
Sasha: Im dereferencing on line 14 dad! god! Malias stupid library doesnt support returning a linked list i think...
Barack: now --let me be clear here-- this, and i mean this code, isnt going to compile in Borland young ladies...
daughters: OMG DAD this compiles FINE in GCC!
Michelle: have you kids been hanging around uncle Richard and his GNU friends again...
Good people go to bed earlier.
Donald Trump has announced that he's going to make Open Source great again by putting the "SS" back in "OSS".
You are welcome on my lawn.
Another bin I have to haul out to the curbside every week. Worse yet, they'll make us sort it first. Perl goes in the green one, C++ in the blue (please remove and discard templates first), VB goes in with the compost.
Have gnu, will travel.
There's no justifiable reason to disallow the distribution of binaries built from modified source code.
My code. My rules. That is all the justification I need.
If you don't like my rules, don't use my code.
Disallowing that isn't promoting freedom; it's eliminating freedom.
The GPL is about the freedom of the code.
with the BSD/MIT/whatever licenses the code is more Free to start with. The GPL makes sure that the code stays Free.
If you don't like the GPL, don't use it.
You just have to understand that different types of people appreciate different types of freedom.
Death has been proven to be 99% fatal in lab rats.