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Why governments should be allowed to specify Open Source software (NewsForge)

[Posted July 25, 2003 by ris]

Robin 'Roblimo' Miller takes a look at some government and military specifications to show that open source specifications are not so outlandish. "If the federal government suddenly decided to acquire and use nothing but Open Source software, this would not stop Microsoft, Adobe, and other big proprietary software vendors from bidding on government contracts. It would simply mean they'd need to open some of their source code if they wanted to do business with the government."

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