Governments' role in open source
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| Governments outside the U.S. are increasingly adopting policies that
| support open source. They have several reasons. They want to save money.
| But they also want to encourage local developers, and starting from an
| open source base means they start from a higher level of complexity than
| if they were building from scratch.
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| The problem is that, in the past, when American industries were threatened
| by foreign competition, America generally chose the worst possible
| policies to support them. Mainly we subsidized incumbents, the outfits
| with the biggest lobbying arms, rather than doing all we could to
| encourage entrepreneurship.
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=760
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