[manholio]

What a wonderful excuse for a government to pay another 1 billion dollars on crapware to their cronies, who will outsource it to some incompetent software sweatshop on the other side of the world.

We can barely get governments to use open source even today, without restrictions. Hell, we can barely make them manage source code for commercial products they commission and pay for. I've walked into govt shops that were 100% binary dependent to the original software author, which never delivered source code and charged them trough the nose for the basic servicing.

Like it or not, the government and regulators represent us, we need individual accountability but harming the govt. directly harms ourselves firstly. The bureaucrats and the corrupt hardly care.