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March 26, 2005
OSS in Japanese Government
From the Open Source in Government dapartment, the Japanese Information Promotion Agency is encouraging the use of Open Source software in government projects such as the Ministry of Economy Trade and Industry.
Government projects, where tax dollars are being used to build software that solves a specific problem, seem to be the very best examples where Open Source software really makes a lot of sense. Since tax dollars finance the project in the first place, the fruit of that labor should be returned to the public domain. Open Source licenses, not only for the newly developed software, but for the software building blocks on which they are based eliminate most if not all barriers to doing just that.
Posted by admin at March 26, 2005 01:00 PM