Will never happen to a great degree, though there are exceptions.<p>There are two sides to the .gov coin; public interest and national defense.<p>On the public interest side, there already is opensource for some major initiatives, like where HL7 came from - on the defense side... youll be SOL.<p>The government pay trillions to contractors to make really complex stuff. Lockheed will not be releasing guidance code anytime in the next millennium.