Government does use and create a great deal of open source software. Github has this list of government and community organisations that use Github : https://

Government does use and create a great deal of open source software. Github has this list of government and community organisations that use Github : https://government.github.com/community/ https://government.github.com/community/ The organisation that I work for has over 200 Github repositories. The Australian government alone from that Github list is literally supporting thousands of open source repositories. It looks like many other governments around the world are doing the same. It would be worth going out and working out how many open source repositories governments are supporting.