If you’ve been reading this site for any amount of time, it has probably started to become apparent that open source is hitting the mainstream in both development and usage. The US Government has even begun embracing open source wholly with 18F at the center of open source adoption. This trend has been a response to major failures in governmental software development like the deployment of Healthcare.gov, and marks a transition away from software that is built using large teams behind closed doors to software that is collaborated on by many small groups in the open. Open source has moved out of the fringe of the software world and into the mainstream, and the US government’s embrace is perhaps the biggest development in this process so far. This article is a must read.
