Why The State Should Release Its Software as Open Source

Another paper from Australia by Brendan Scott:
"Why The State Should Release Its Software as Open Source"

PDF version at
http://www.members.optusnet.com.au/osl/papers/BScottGovAccessRegimes040519.pdf
html/text version on Groklaw at
http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20040527003340392

Brendan's web page Re: Open Source Law
http://www.members.optusnet.com.au/osl/

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InfoWeek's story on open-source repository in Massachusetts:
http://www.informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=18400894
They got part of it wrong, and mysql.com contributor adds corrections:
http://lists.ibiblio.org/pipermail/cc-licenses/2004-March/000563.html

Details from Community Networking.org at the LBJ School of Public
Affairs, U of Texas at Austin:
-- hosted at U of Rhode Island, seven states + four municipalities.
http://www.communitynetworking.org/index.php?id=P220

The Center of Open Source & Government: http://www.egovos.org/
        All our favourite people: http://www.egovos.org/GOSAC
        Who else does it: http://www.egovos.org/Resources
US Dept. of Defense (DOD) on OSS:
http://www.egovos.org/rawmedia_repository/822a91d2_fc51_4e6e_8120_1c2d4d88fa06?/document.pdf

NASA Open Source Software: http://opensource.arc.nasa.gov/

Commonwealth of Massachusetts - Information Technology Div.:
http://www.state.ma.us/itd/openstandards.htm

SUPPORT -- You can buy it, if you want it:
http://www.structuredsoft.com/ssoft/en/support/index.html

"The Open Source Government"
  Article by Ed Scannell & Grant Gross in LinuxInsider:
http://www.linuxinsider.com/story/opensource/33794.html

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