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Michael Moore ignores capitalism's blessings
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| Open source is government-free and self-
| sustaining
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| In fact, many public-domain innovations have
| developed into their own financially
| sustainable system. Much of the Internet is
| run by patent-free "open source" software.
| Open source permits anyone to modify a
| program, as long as their modifications are
| made publicly available.
|
| As some open-source projects reach millions
| of individual contributors, financial
| assistance is needed to pay for websites and
| data storage. Technology megacorporations,
| such as Cisco, happily sponsor open-source
| software; it not only gives them great
| publicity, but ensures access to software
| they find more efficient than commercial
| products.
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http://www.csmonitor.com/2009/1103/p09s03-coop.html
DoD Thumbs Up to Open Source
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| Chris heads federal affairs at Sun, Paul is
| GM of Red Hatâs public sector team, and
| John's a Mercury Federal exec. Paul tells us
| the memo reiterates what early adopters
| already know: open source saves money, is
| scalable, secure, and easy to deploy. Paul's
| also a member of the board of advisors at
| OSFA, an open-source coalition. John adds:
| the memo, along with the White House
| switching to Drupal, is a boom for business.
| âWeâre already seeing the benefits.â
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http://www.bisnow.com/washington_dc_tech_news_story.php?p=5911
Recent:
Adobe is Bad for Open Government
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| So next week, Adobe's having aconference
| here to tell Federal employees why they
| ought to be using "Adobe PDF, and AdobeÂ
| Flash technology" to make government more
| open. They've spent what seems to be
| millions of dollars wrapping buses in DC
| with Adobe marketing materials all designed
| to tell us how necessary Adobe products are
| to Obama's Open Government Initiative.
| They've even got a beautiful website set up
| to tout the government's use of Flash and
| PDF, and are holding a conference here next
| week to talk about how Government should use
| ubiquitous and secure technologies to make
| government more open and interactive.
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http://sunlightlabs.com/blog/2009/adobe-bad-open-government/
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