Gunnar Hellekson on open source adoption in government

Open source software received a high-profile vote of confidence when Whitehouse.gov chose to use the Drupal as it's web content management system. Agencies also warmed to open source solutions when the DoD released a 2009 memo dispelling some common misconceptions around open source software.

Gunnar Hellekson, Red Hat Government lead architect and co-chair of Open Source for America recently talked with FierceGovernmentIT about where and how open source is being adopted across the federal government and what could be done to encourage adoption. Read the interview.