Last update: 03/02/2021
The Growing Case for OSPOs in Government
OSPOs (Open Source Programme Offices) are becoming the norm in private sector companies working with software and the public sector is catching up. Why do governments create OSPOs now and what are they hoping to achieve? A central unit in charge of Open Source software is not new in government. Yet, if one would try to find an OSPO in a given government, one would find only a few, more recent creations. The OSPO term is relatively new in the context of governments and historically an organisation with a similar, yet not identical, purpose would be called an Open Source competence centre.…
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