User: SumeetT

It's not in government interest to fund open sourc

On: Free Software as a Public Good

This is a very well highlighted point in Lessig's book -- Code and other laws of cyberspace. When a product is not open source, governments can lean on companies to make them install backdoors and other things like that -- these can be used by governments as and when they need to.

However, in a open source product, the government has less control over what gets implemented, beacuse their power to "lean on" a corporation disappears.