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by OxO4 2684 days ago
I agree that there may be edge cases where it doesn't make sense to make software open source (although I also think that the majority of software used at IRS, NSA, CIA, and FBI could be open source). However, I strongly believe that if the code is not published, it should at least be available to the government itself, s.t. if a vendor goes out of business or the government wants to change vendors they can do so without issues.