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Blog posts by Ian Lee

  • The case for open source software

    By on July 12, 2018

    Software is everywhere at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Much of their software portfolio is open source. They began releasing software in the 1990s — long before the Federal Source Code Policy required government institutions to make their code available to each other and to release at least 20 percent to the public.

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