TheOpenAnalyst

Much noise has been made in the past week or so about President-elect Barack Obama’s creation of a governmental chief tech officer position. My question is: What will be their stance on open source? Will they lean towards it, mandate it, forbid it … or ignore it entirely? I looked into it, and came away feeling we had much bigger problems looming.

Since no one has been named to the position yet and no nomination is imminent, you can expect plenty more speculation about who’s to fill this first-of-its-kind cabinet position. There’s little question in my mind that open source and especially open data interchange formats are a smart idea for government work, especially since other countries are getting wise to the idea.

Open Source In Obama’s Tech Agenda | Open Source Blog | InformationWeek

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