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posted by mrpg on Sunday June 03 2018, @05:33AM   Printer-friendly
from the what-happened-to-free-software? dept.

New policy pushes for open source in California agencies

[...] The California Department of Technology released a letter this week announcing a new policy — called the Open Source and Code Reuse Policy — elevating the use of open source software across state government. Agencies and state entities are asked to develop, purchase or reuse open source software — anything with source code that is publicly available to view, adapt, or reuse — for new IT projects as a first option where it is financially viable. (There are a few exceptions, such as cases that would threaten national or state security.)

The policy is also applied retroactively to existing state-built software, requiring agencies to make such code "broadly available for reuse across state government in a consistent manner." The policy notes that reusing custom-developed code across state agencies "can have significant benefits for taxpayers, including decreasing duplicative costs" and is intended to "promote innovation and collaboration across state government."

Non-open-source software will still be permitted — an official from the California Department of Technology assured StateScoop that the state wants to keep the door open for its vendor partners, but emphasized that open source has value that warrants strong consideration by agencies.


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  • (Score: 2, Offtopic) by realDonaldTrump on Sunday June 03 2018, @06:03AM (1 child)

    by realDonaldTrump (6614) on Sunday June 03 2018, @06:03AM (#687946) Homepage Journal

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  • (Score: 1) by anubi on Sunday June 03 2018, @06:29AM

    by anubi (2828) on Sunday June 03 2018, @06:29AM (#687951) Journal

    Can you please do something about all this patent and copyright mess?

    Its one thing protecting a guy's business reputation and his mark, but using law to keep competition at bay is flat not at all within the scope of "free enterprise", its become a goddamm crony capitalism, like Al Capone used to run.

    If I see Joe is making a living stacking brick, I want the right to stack brick too, without Joe's Congressman telling me that I am treading on Joe's monopoly rights by offering to do the same thing for less.

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    "Prove all things; hold fast that which is good." [KJV: I Thessalonians 5:21]