Open-source software needs a higher profile in Washington, D.C., according to a group of about 70 organizations and companies that launched a new campaign to educate U.S. government agencies about the benefits of open source. Full Story »
Posted by Derek Hawkins
Short writeup on the efforts of the Open Source community to encourage the government to open more contracts to open source. For those who aren't familiar, Open Source software is software that is distributed with its source code in a readable format. In the Linux operating system, you can see and modify the code to tweak the system vs. Windows where the source code is not open and you cannot tweak the operating system.
The government stands to save a great deal of money by adopting open source software