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US Chief Information Officer Tony Scott introduces
the Federal Source Code Policy,
on the White House blog. “By making source code available for
sharing and re-use across Federal agencies, we can avoid duplicative custom
software purchases and promote innovation and collaboration across Federal
agencies. By opening more of our code to the brightest minds inside and
outside of government, we can enable them to work together to ensure that
the code is reliable and effective in furthering our national
objectives. And we can do all of this while remaining consistent with the
Federal Government’s long-standing policy of technology neutrality, through
which we seek to ensure that Federal investments in IT are merit-based,
improve the performance of our government, and create value for the
American people.” (Thanks to David A. Wheeler)