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by someguy1233 4461 days ago
They slowly are going open source.

A big example is Gov.UK which is mostly mostly open source as well as a few other big UK gov services like police.gov [1]

A large part of the NHS was moved off of a proprietary oracle system just a few months ago [2]

[1] http://github.com/alphagov [2] http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/10/10/nhs_drops_oracle_for...