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I agree in principle but not everything is useful for the public, and making code FOSS is not just a matter of uploading it somewhere - this requires documentation, regular updates, clear assignation of responsibility, etc. You'd be surprised by how strapped for resources even powerful government bureaucracies can be - committing time to foss-ing is time not spent on operational needs.

So I would argue: open source anything that can be expected to have wider reuse or transparency benefits. But don't just spam any code produced to the public.



How about developing in public? See for example login.gov, the source code is on GitHub and you can see their commits and issue board in real time.




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