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Open Source Software’s Opportunity to Reform Government

The results from the 2013 Future of Open Source Survey are in — thanks to everyone who contributed by completing the survey. You can read an overview of the results [...]







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Enabling Open Choice in Germany

It’s illegal for public entities in Germany to take full advantage of open source software… at least until a (well-intentioned) law is revised. With technology moving faster than legal systems, [...]







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Talend Trade Agreements Act Ruling: A Major Step Forward on FOSS for US Government

Talend, a licensor of open source enterprise software, has recently received a ruling from the U.S. Customs Service corroborating that its software complies with the Trade Agreements Act 0f 1979 [...]







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OSEHRA Making Strides: A Review of the Open Source EHR Summit & Workshop

Last week I was fortunate to both attend and present at OSEHRA’s first annual Open Source EHR Summit & Workshop . There were some great presentations on the status of OSEHRA [...]







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Open Source – What’s Trending Now

What do Bosch, NYSE Technologies and U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs have in common? Not only are they all key examples of current and influential open source trends, they’re also [...]







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Live Free or Die: NH Requires Consideration of Open Source Solutions for its Agencies

In a down economy consumers aren’t the only ones feeling a little lighter in their pockets. Tough times call for government organizations to tighten their belts and make every tax [...]







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How Data and Communities are Changing Health Care

I’ve written here before about government’s role in establishing a ‘super community’ for electronic health records. The question most people focused in on, when I wrote the first post, is [...]







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Open Source and Curiosity

With all the excitement about the amazing feat of technology that sent Curiosity to Mars, we had to wonder: Would any of this be possible without open source?  We know [...]







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Openness Around the World

With all eyes focused on the Olympics and the amazing feats from athletes the world over, we thought it might be nice to turn the Open Source Delivers spotlight to [...]







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In DC, Open Source is Just Software… and That’s Good

It was a great pleasure to be involved in organizing last week’s Open Source Industry Day, sponsored by the NSA. In the spirit of the day, I’ve been sworn to [...]







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