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 Something I think needs dicussing is the idea of Government (Tax Payer) funds being used by IT Contractors to develop custom appliations that are licensed under a proprietory license. I think all "new code" developed from Governmental organisations should be licensed under an Open Source license. We as tax payers paid for the software, we should own the software. 

  

 Agree with this one - generally the larger govt departments require that IP in any applications developed vests in the govt, it is worth a bash to convince them this should in turn be put in the public domain. A point of consideration is that many IT organisations would embed pre-existing proprietary code in the developed application, and generally give the Govt body a license to use these components and sell the application in its entirity. To make the software available as open source would make the individual components accessable - which might not be viable from a commercial perspective.