Obama Administration Encourages Open Source Development

[MineralMan]

http://www.informationweek.com/news/government/enterprise-apps/229503428

DOD Releases Open Source Development Guide

The Department of Defense (DOD) has released a landmark guide for using open-source and open-standards technology to develop software in the U.S. military.

The 68-page guide, "Open Technology Development: Lessons Learned and Best Practices for Military Software," aims to "help U.S. government personnel and contractors implement open technology development (OTD) for software within government projects, particularly in defense," according to the guide, which has been posted in its entirety on the Scribd website and is available for free download.

The document includes comprehensive guidelines and best practices for using open standards and open source technology and even recommends DOD developers used open source to develop software whenever possible in place of closed-source options.

Fittingly, the guide itself was released under an open-source license--specifically, the Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike 3.0 License.

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Open source software development could be a cost-cutter.

[msongs]

1. cutting about $500 billion a year ought just about do it nt

[lbrtbell]

2. It's about time!

Helps make up for the cost of replacing the WH PC's with expensive Macs. Too bad they didn't just run Linux on those PC's, which would have enabled upgrading without spending one dime.

[L0oniX]

6. Macs os is a customized BSD which is free and better than linux.

I have been running FreeBSD for years ...and there are a ton of open source apps too.

[Fumesucker]

3. Excellent move..

Respect to the administration for this one..

[JTFrog]

4. K&R

[hootinholler]

5. It's way past time for this...

What the Fed has spent on licensing fees over the years, they could have developed the software needed and put it in the public domain.

-Hoot