It is great the Government is using some open source / free software.  And they also released some into the public domain is great. 

I would also offer a word of caution - make sure any software the government released is free from any type of reporting code or a back door.

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Keith Smith

If my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then will I hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and will heal their land. - 2 Chronicles 7:14

--- On Thu, 7/22/10, der.hans <PLUGd@LuftHans.com> wrote:

From: der.hans <PLUGd@LuftHans.com>
Subject: Re: UK Government says, "Dump Microsoft"
To: "Main PLUG discussion list" <plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us>
Date: Thursday, July 22, 2010, 11:15 PM

Am 09. Jul, 2010 schwätzte joe@actionline.com so:

moin moin Joe,

> Now, if only we could get a little of this common sense in Washington D.C.

We have a little. We need lots :).

Obama's White House team has been using Free Software. More
importantly, it's been releasing Free Software.

http://www.whitehouse.gov/tech

I believe the Dean Machine ran almost completely on Free Software as well.
I believe it also provided a lot of code and paid for even more
development.

While he was campaigning, Obama released position papers with slightly pro
Free Software stances.

Off the top of my head, I don't know of other national politicians and
agencies with pro Free Software actions.

There is a group supposedly having success getting the gov't to adopt Free
Software. There was a presentation on it at OSCON this week. Search
identi.ca for !OSCON or @bkuhn.

ciao,

der.hans
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