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Government Computer News: Trade Commission Frees Directory Source Code

Written By
JJ
Joab Jackson
Aug 21, 2004

“Free to a good home: source code for an online directory
service.

“The liberated code, written in Java, once powered the Federal
White Pages, a phone directory of federal employees located at
directory.gov. The project, run by the International Trade
Commission and a committee of small federal agencies, offered
contact information for more than 450,000 federal employees from 22
agencies. After the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, program
managers shuttered the site because of security concerns…”

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