<div>Good to see it; thanks for sharing. :o)</div><div><br></div><div>I know the State of California published an IT policy letter in <a href="http://www.cio.ca.gov/government/it_policy/itpl.html" target="_blank">2010</a> on open source...this goes beyond that to give back to the community--great news.<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 2:05 PM, Brian Lavender <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:brian@brie.com" target="_blank">brian@brie.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
According to this article.<br>
<a href="http://www.fool.com/investing/general/2012/04/11/the-government-surrenders-to-a-new-it-paradigm.aspx" target="_blank">http://www.fool.com/investing/general/2012/04/11/the-government-surrenders-to-a-new-it-paradigm.aspx</a><br>
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Consumer Financial Protection Bureau pledges to publish the source code<br>
to all software it builds or contracts out for others to build.<br>
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Code review is good for security as well as formal methods! Not to mention,<br>
I believe in many cases the public should be able to review what they are<br>
paying for.<br>
<br>
brian<br>
--<br>
Brian Lavender<br>
<a href="http://www.brie.com/brian/" target="_blank">http://www.brie.com/brian/</a><br>
<br>
"There are two ways of constructing a software design. One way is to<br>
make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies. And the other<br>
way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies."<br>
<br>
Professor C. A. R. Hoare<br>
The 1980 Turing award lecture<br>
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