I'm all for free software making inroads in government and elsewhere. I just wonder if it'd be better off recommending someone a little more, let's say... pragmatic, than Stallman as an advisor.

It looks like this petition expired at the end of February after not receiving enough signatures.

> The petition you are trying to access has expired, because it failed to meet the signature threshold.

https://wwws.whitehouse.gov/petitions#!/petition/lower-natio...

Usage of Open Source by any country is a great idea.

I'd like to mention that living in Ukraine where people can freely understand russian and ukrainian languages that Russia will do that BUT during this process a lot of money will flow away. There is an interesting resource about such processes here: http://rospil.info/