White House petition: release government-developed software as open source

Will never happen to a great degree, though there are exceptions.

There are two sides to the .gov coin; public interest and national defense.

On the public interest side, there already is opensource for some major initiatives, like where HL7 came from - on the defense side... youll be SOL.

The government pay trillions to contractors to make really complex stuff. Lockheed will not be releasing guidance code anytime in the next millennium.