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Lessons from open source in the Mexican government

The adoption of open-source software in governments has had its ups and downs. While open source seems like a "no-brainer", it turns out that governments can be surprisingly resistant to using FOSS for a variety of reasons.

He left the government at the recent change of presidents (to Claudia Scheinbaum) and is now working on " helping people do their own transformations" to open source, while keeping an eye out for the next big thing. To combat that, INFOTEC developed four online educational programs, adding cloud computing and data center operations to the two boot camp subjects, all based on open-source software. In answer to a question about license audits (to enforce compliance with proprietary-software terms) that was asked by a Mexican citizen who used to work at INFOTEC as a contractor, González Waite said that all of the large proprietary software companies " are big bullies".

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