[ Thanks to Matt for
this link. ]
“The use of open-source software is alive and well and growing
among government agencies, including the U.S. Census Bureau.“In an address at the O’Reilly Open Source Convention (Oscon)
here on Thursday titled ‘Open Source in Government,’ Lisa Wolfisch
Nyman, a senior Internet technology architect at the Bureau, said
the issue of open source and government was first raised at Oscon
in 1999, where many public sector employees said they were
forbidden from using open source.“But things have changed substantially over the past four years,
she said. ‘In June this year, Bruce Mehlman, the assistant
secretary for technical policy at the Department of Commerce, said
that the ‘Penguin has landed’, which is quite a shift in just four
years,’ she said…”