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[John J. Lee]

Robert Kern <robert.kern at gmail.com> writes:
[...]
> No, it's not a silly idea. Dean Baker, the Co-Director the Center for Economic
> and Policy Research, has proposed for the U.S. government to establish a
> Software Developer's Corps. For $2 billion per year, it could fund about 20,000
> developers to make open source software. Much of that software would be directly
> usable by local, state, and federal governments and thus pay back some, all, or
> more of the investment (Dean estimates more). In addition, the general public
> also benefits directly.
> 
> http://www.cepr.net/publications/windows_2005_10.pdf

Given the current balance of power in the USA government, I assume
this proposal is aimed at >= 2008 ;-)


John