Open Source Government Petition

[James Bradley]

Benjamin Kerensa has pointed out that the short URL provided by the We
the People site doesn't appear to be working, though it did when I
initially checked it. Anyway, here is the full URL:
https://wwws.whitehouse.gov/petitions?_escaped_fragment_=/petition/lower-national-debt-expanding-governments-use-free-software-such-gnulinux-and-libreoffice/jkLbwPDC#!/petition/lower-national-debt-expanding-governments-use-free-software-such-gnulinux-and-libreoffice/jkLbwPDC


JVLB


On 01/31/2012 01:23 PM, Benjamin Kerensa wrote:
> On 01/31/2012 10:21 AM, James Bradley wrote:
>> The We the People portion of the whitehouse.gov site has posted a
>> petition calling for government to reduce spending by employing open
>> source software. The petition can be found at: http://wh.gov/kCq
>>
>> To my mind, government using open source is just good business sense. As
>> you may know, the whitehouse.gov site is hosted on Drupal. Still, there
>> is no broad mandate that encourages agencies to consider open source
>> solutions. If you agree there should be such a mandate, I would suggest
>> you add your name to the petition.
>>
>> JVLB
>>
>>
>
> Thanks for sharing this James it seems like an excellent opportunity
> to advocate for
> FOSS in Government. Many governments have saved untold amounts by
> deploying more FOSS.
>