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We've written on numerous occasions about open source adoption in government and education. The ways that open source solutions make sense in (and even philosophically complement) these areas are many, and often make any obstacles involved seem less critical. But for reasons that are frequently unrelated to the utility or appropriateness of open source software, adoption in the public sector has been slow.

It is on the increase, however. The Daily Gazette in Schenectady, New York, recently ran a piece detailing the reasons why the public sector has been hesitant about -- but not entirely resistant to -- adopting open source software.

One of the benefits of having a community of readers and open source users here at OStatic is that you can get good answers to questions about open source. On the toolbar atop our home page, you can click on Question, type yours in, and you'll usually get very informed responses back. There are also a lot of sites around the web where you can get excellent crowdsourced answers to all kinds of tech questions. In this post on WebWorkerDaily, you'll find five good resources for free answers, including the free forums at W3Schools, and Weegy. Check it out.?