• [$] Lessons from open source in the Mexican government

    From LWN.net@1337:1/100 to All on Mon Mar 24 12:00:08 2025
    [$] Lessons from open source in the Mexican government

    Date:
    Mon, 24 Mar 2025 11:49:35 +0000

    Description:
    The adoption of open-source software in governments has had its ups and
    downs. While open source seems like a "no-brainer", it turns out that governments can be surprisingly resistant to using FOSS for a variety of reasons. Federico Gonzlez Waite spoke in the Open Government track at SCALE 22x in Pasadena,
    California to recount his experiences
    working with and for the Mexican government . He led multiple projects
    to switch away from proprietary, often predatory, software companies with
    some successand failure.

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    Link to news story:
    https://lwn.net/Articles/1013776/


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