IDG Contributor Network: The White House opens its doors to open source

As someone who covers open source extensively I am constantly (and happily) amazed how widespread open source has become -- from industry to governments of some of the most powerful countries.
Yesterday the Obama administration released for public comment a draft Federal Source Code policy to support improved access to custom software code. The US government is inviting comments on the draft especially around “considerations regarding the release of custom code as OSS.” From the pol