Group Urges Obama To Consider Open Source

A group of open source code practitioners has written a letter to President Barack Obama urging him to require wider adoption of open source code throughout the government. "We urge you to make it mandatory to consider the source of an application solution (open or closed) as part of the government's technology acquisition process, just as considering accessibility by the handicapped is required," wrote 15 leaders of open source projects and companies."

Mr. President, we believe the open-source industry is changing the world of software development in many of the ways you have promised to change American politics. We sincerely hope that you will make the use of open-source software a key component of every new technology initiative the United States government enters into," they said.