 Taxpayer funded open source?
wmf: This is already happening here and there. The DOE made a policy decision to use open source on their supercomputers so that they would be vendor-indpendent; this has resulted in open source software like Lustre and SLURM. The E community was funded by DARPA. I'm sure there are others.I don't know of any umbrella initiatives to fund open source in general. Given the ridiculous amounts of "stimulus" money being given out, go for it.