IT Manager's Journal: How Your Open Source Company Can Begin Government Contracting

"It used to be that governmental agencies enamored of the status quo--and that's pretty much the whole government--were not interested in open source solutions to their IT problems. Like the rest of the IT industry, though, government is now looking to open source to make its resources go further. Unlike the rest of the industry, and atypical for government, federal and state agencies are embracing open source ideas and ideals.

"The reasons for governments' budding love affair with open source are not hard to understand. By law, intellectual property created by the U.S. federal government is automatically released into the public domain..."

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