Applying Open Source Principles to Federal Government
summary
Federal agencies adopt concrete open‑source practices: a 2004 DOE grant mandates the most permissive license for shared code, NASA runs a public collab for scientist-developer cooperation, the Navy, IBM and Red Hat add determinism to Linux and Linux real-time pushed upstream, a dozen states build a prison ERP on encom, DoD publishes an Open Technology Development roadmap and pushes a 75,000 lines modular approach, and a Guard unit wires watchtowers with scavenged Wi‑Fi and Asterisk to save months and millions.
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chapters (10)
- 0:00Start
- 0:12Applying Open Source Principles to Federal Government
- 1:49"The government" is made of people.
- 2:55MAKE MARKETS.
- 5:37FAIL FASTER.
- 6:11$200+ Billion
- 6:27They did.
- 6:57Afraid to Fail.
- 7:44Open Technology Development Roadmap
- 10:14SOLVE OUR OWN PROBLEMS.
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