The government doesn't do a lot of external redistribution of software that I know of, besides things like VistA[1], which is free software itself. For the vast

The government doesn't do a lot of external redistribution of software that I know of, besides things like VistA[1], which is free software itself. For the vast majority of the software the government uses, the license enforcement costs would be zero. For the rest, the cost would be less than the corresponding proprietary application. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VistA http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VistA