Within the next month, the U.S Budget and Management Office will gain ideas from the public on how to improve federal software procurement. Open-source supporters see this as a method to acquire competitive advantage in federal marketplace.
OMB will be drafting a memo that outlines the best practices as a part of a broad effort on behalf of the White House “to improve efficiency, reduce red tape, and provide greater benefit for taxpayer dollars,” in federal acquisition.
For the open-source community, there is no better way of achieving these goals than to challenge the status quo of using commercial software in favor of pre-written, easily modifiable and widely available code to build applications.
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