A group of software vendors has published an open letter to president Obama encouraging the new administration to adopt open source software in the government's IT infrastructure. The letter says that open source software can reduce costs when implementing government technology initiatives in areas like healthcare and security.

Open source software is already broadly used by many different branches of the government.

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