Comment Re:Publicly Funded Governments (Score 5, Insightful) 159
All government data needs to be open to auditing. Thus any government data needs to be stored in open formats that can be examined and manipulated with tools that can be sourced from multiple parties. Furthermore, the government should not be in the business of helping entrench particular software monopolies.
The nature of the binaries being run is really just a side show.
It's the DATA that needs to be open.