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Open up: Massachusetts and Rhode Island open-source effort might force vendors to change
by
Khairil Yusof
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last modified
2006-07-10 03:01 PM
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William Welsh
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Massachusetts and Rhode Island are nurturing an effort that might be the catalyst for widespread deployment of open-source software for state and local governments.
The Government Open Code Collaborative already has released a half dozen sets of open-source code and is poised to develop e-government applications, officials directing the initiative said.
The ascent of open-source code could rock the government over the next decade, forcing software makers to reassess how they sell to state and local governments, and creating a demand for them to routinely develop open-source code, experts said.
Source: Washington Technology
