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Study: Governments need open source (ZDNet)

This ZDNet article follows up on the FLOSS report, showing why governments need open source. "The FLOSS report argues that open-source software, by its nature, better fulfils certain governmental responsibilities than software to which source-code access is restricted. These responsibilities include the public's right to public information and to know how that information is processed; the permanence of public data; and the security of that data."
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