[vox] Government and open source

[Kevin Schultz]

Good to see it; thanks for sharing. :o)

I know the State of California published an IT policy letter in
2010<http://www.cio.ca.gov/government/it_policy/itpl.html>on open
source...this goes beyond that to give back to the community--great
news.

On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 2:05 PM, Brian Lavender <brian at brie.com> wrote:

> According to this article.
>
> http://www.fool.com/investing/general/2012/04/11/the-government-surrenders-to-a-new-it-paradigm.aspx
>
>  Consumer Financial Protection Bureau pledges to publish the source code
>  to all software it builds or contracts out for others to build.
>
> Code review is good for security as well as formal methods! Not to mention,
> I believe in many cases the public should be able to review what they are
> paying for.
>
> brian
> --
> Brian Lavender
> http://www.brie.com/brian/
>
> "There are two ways of constructing a software design. One way is to
> make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies. And the other
> way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies."
>
> Professor C. A. R. Hoare
> The 1980 Turing award lecture
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