[Am-info] Using open-source software........

[Fred A. Miller]

"Although the details have yet to be ironed out, Willis plans for the 
states' open-source repository to be available to everyone, so the rest 
of the open-source community can benefit -- and contribute. The plan is 
for Rhode Island and Hawaii to jointly create and maintain a Web site 
that will archive the documentation of the work each state has done on 
its open-source software. The hope is that in the future other states 
will also document their work.

"Documenting our practices with the intent to share them with others has 
threefold benefits," Willis notes. "We learn from the experience of 
other states, we share development resources with other states, and we 
have better internal documentation of our own practices. All this for 
the effort of articulating our practices and documenting our internally 
developed software such that it makes sense to others.""

<http://www.computerworld.com/softwaretopics/os/story/0,10801,80053,00.html?nas=OS-80053>

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Fred A. Miller
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