Unlike businesses that may have a legitimate need to protect what might be competitive advantages based on their selection of suppliers, governments have no suc

Unlike businesses that may have a legitimate need to protect what might be competitive advantages based on their selection of suppliers, governments have no such needs. Yet similar municipalities that have very similar requirements buy the same software thousands of times over. Governments and schools do much the same things everywhere. The next step is for governments that have passed these laws to form consortia to fund and support open software.