Here is a question I'd like to get some thoughts on... Should software
written by our government be Open Source? After all, we pay for it. I think
we be given the opportunity to find new and creative uses for it.
I think open sourcing this software could also serve to make government more
Government-written and government-contracted software is NOT Open Source,
but it IS Public Domain.
Knowing the differences is left as an exercise for the reader, but if you
want the source code, a FOIA request would probably turn it up for you in
short order.
D
At 10:17 AM 3/8/00 -0800,
e denied the
maximum benefit of their investment.
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At 10:52 AM 3/8/00 -0800, Brice, Richard wrote:
Public domain and Open Source are not the same thing... No problem with
that. However, I've seen government agencies exercise their right to
copyright material (at least I assume it is their right because it is done
frequently).
It would be
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Subject:RE: Should governmnet software be Open Source?
At 10:52 AM 3/8/00 -0800, Brice, Richard wrote:
Public domain and Open Source are not the same thing... No problem
with
that. However, I've seen government agencies
Derek J. Balling writes:
At 10:52 AM 3/8/00 -0800, Brice, Richard wrote:
Public domain and Open Source are not the same thing... No problem with
that.
But public domain is one form of Open Source; see below.
As a specific example, the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation has
written
Is anyone familiar with the IRS's effort to create free (as in beer) tax
software? As I recall, Congress shut this project down at the behest of
Intuit, et al. The argument was the same as that often made against the
USPS, government intrusion in the market space of what would otherwise be
a
At 04:13 PM 3/8/00 -0500, Rick B. Dietz wrote:
The issue to the IRS was not that it was competing with commercial
services, rather it was making interaction with an existing government
beaurocracy easier for citizens for nothing over the internet. Intuit was
saying, wait a second, we like this
Derek J. Balling writes:
At 11:37 AM 3/8/00 -0800, Seth David Schoen wrote:
At 10:52 AM 3/8/00 -0800, Brice, Richard wrote:
Public domain and Open Source are not the same thing... No problem with
that.
But public domain is one form of Open Source; see below.
Fair enough, BUT, I
On Wed, 8 Mar 2000, Seth David Schoen wrote:
This is a difficult argument; after all, paying taxes does not allow you
to attend a public university without being admitted, nor to enter
government buildings and offices or military bases.
I think the difference here is precisely that
On Wed, 08 Mar 2000, Brice, Richard wrote:
Here is a question I'd like to get some thoughts on... Should software
written by our government be Open Source? After all, we pay for it. I think
we be given the opportunity to find new and creative uses for it.
Of course! And more than that, it
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