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The United Stated Digital Service is pushing for more government software to be open source[1]. I have no idea how effective it is, but it made me happy to see

[1] https://playbook.usds.gov/ ctrl+f "Default to open"

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Not just the USDS (as the USDS is a small part of a larger effort), the GSA as a whole is pushing for this. They maintain a lot of open source software for the federal and state governments and they try to do open by default and FOSS COTS where they can.

Just the main GSA github org has over 1000 repos in it.

https://github.com/GSA/

https://open.gsa.gov/

Deloitte hates this

It's extremely effective. Not just USDS either, but also 18F (now GSA TTS). Also, much of the UK government.

The people win when the sun can shine.

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