[FYI] Pres. commision will recommend backing open source

["Ralf Stephan" <ralf@ark.in-berlin.de>]

http://nanodot.org/articles/00/08/28/0554213.shtml
http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/00/08/biztech/articles/28code.html

   Presidential commission will recommend backing open source path
   
   posted by RichardTerra on Sunday August 27, @05:50PM
   from the maybe-they-do-get-it dept.
   
   A major article in the New York Times ("Code Name: Mainstream - Can
   'Open Source' Bridge the Software Gap?" by Steve Lohr, 28 August 2000)
   reports that a Presidential commission will recommend backing the Open
   Source software development model as an alternative path for
   addressing pressing national needs in the development of new
   information technologies.
   
   According to the Times article, "the President's Information
   Technology Advisory Committee will recommend that the federal
   government back 'open source software as an alternate path for
   software development,' according to a draft copy of the report, which
   will be sent to the White House and published in a matter of weeks."
   
   A few highlights fron the Times article:
   
   In a report to President Clinton last year, a group of leading
   computer scientists warned that the nation faced a troubling "software
   gap."
   
   The group, made up of corporate executives and university researchers,
   said that programmers simply could not keep pace with exploding demand
   for high-quality software -- the computer code needed for everything
   from Internet commerce to nuclear weapons design. To bridge the gap,
   the group said, the nation must not only train more skilled
   programmers but also explore fresh, even radical, approaches to
   developing and maintaining software.
   
   In a new report, the group, known as the President's Information
   Technology Advisory Committee, will recommend that the federal
   government back "open source software as an alternate path for
   software development," according to a draft copy of the report, which
   will be sent to the White House and published in a matter of weeks.
   
   "I am increasingly coming to the conclusion that the Internet and
   open-source initiatives are the free marketplace way of dealing with
   the extremely complex software issues we are facing," said Irving
   Wladawsky-Berger, an I.B.M. executive and a member of the presidential
   advisory committee.


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