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Open-source committee will advise agencies for free
Agencies can now get free advice from the new Government Open Source Advisory Committee, which includes some of open-source software’s most influential leaders. Miguel de Icaza, for instance, heads up development of the Gnome desktop interface found in nearly all Linux distributions. Roy T. Fielding is a co-founder of the Apache Software Foundation, which developed the Web server freeware running on about 67 percent of Internet servers, according to estimates by Netcraft Ltd. of Bath, England.