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CENDI provides some info on copyright as it applies to the US Government http://www.cendi.gov/publications/04-8copyright.html | CENDI provides some info on copyright as it applies to the US Government http://www.cendi.gov/publications/04-8copyright.html | ||
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| + | The IT Sector of the US Federal Government is $82 Billion in FY 2015 https://www.itdashboard.gov/drupal/ | ||
So what are "We The People" getting for our money? Specifically, what are these expenditures producing in terms of technology freedom? Very little. Almost nothing. But we can work for change. | So what are "We The People" getting for our money? Specifically, what are these expenditures producing in terms of technology freedom? Very little. Almost nothing. But we can work for change. | ||
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| + | The White House is considering an "open source" initiative to publish more code under an open license. I'm proposing an even better option: Free Software by default. | ||
| + | https://github.com/WhiteHouse/source-code-policy/pull/78 | ||
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| + | == Some developer and/or public resources == | ||
| + | # https://www.data.gov/labs/ | ||
| + | # https://www.itdashboard.gov/ | ||
| + | # https://www.usaspending.gov/Pages/Default.aspx | ||
== Free software available now == | == Free software available now == | ||
