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It's Time for Obama to Come Out for FOSS
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| People in Congress have it tough.
|
| They're expected to deal with every new
| topic that comes down the pike, from
| regulating securitized credit swaps to
| beefing up cybersecurity, whether they've
| had any previous experience with it or not.
| Of course, there's never a shortage of
| people who want to educate them, but the
| "educators" with the greatest access are
| likely to be lobbyists. And when one paid
| advocate is promoting one action, political
| physics dictates that another highly paid
| individual in somebody else's pocket will
| be promoting an equal and opposite action.
| Soon, all potential solutions become
| obscured by a fog of business propaganda.
|
| What's a poor legislator (and her staff) to | do?
|
| Good question. There's been plenty of fog
| on Capitol Hill about free and open source
| software (FOSS) for a decade now, and
| that's hardly surprising. In the beginning,
| most big software companies were a'gin it,
| and any government agency CIO allowing a
| useful bit of FOSS to find a home on the
| servers she supervised was not likely to
| advertise that fact.
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http://www.consortiuminfo.org/standardsblog/article.php?story=20091020050110241
Updegrove: Obama should give FOSS equal treatment
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| In a blog featured on the site today,
| Updegrove said open source has made huge
| inroads in various government sectors,
| especially the Department of Defense, but
| itâs high time that the president give FOSS
| equal treatment top down.
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=5053
Recent:
Transparency against malpractic
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| As a result of my new enthusiasm to 'get out more' I found myself listening
| to a detailed and balanced 'non-advocacy' presentation from a respected OSS
| Watch staffer.
|
| He explained patiently how open source licencing worked and how it differed
| from proprietary licences. But what he did say whilst looking for an everyday
| resonance to make his points accessible to a non-geek audience, and which
| really sharpened every-one's attention, was that proprietary software was
| built on secret code whereas open source software had transparent code.
|
| Proprietary software IS composed of secret code. You can't read it, you don't
| know what it does (other than what you can see it do), you don't know how it
| does it and you can't change it.
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http://www.siriusit.co.uk/myblog/secret-code-and-the-damage-it-does-to-our-society.html
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