Not true

Posted Mar 14, 2016 13:49 UTC (Mon) by dpquigl (guest, #52852)
In reply to: Not true by david.a.wheeler
Parent article: A policy statement on open-source software from the White House

It depends on the sector but yes a lot of GOTS/Govt software is developed by contractors. Most federal contract boilerplate now contains copyright assignment to the government since they were bitten by that so many times in the past.