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Why govts should open source software it develops?

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I am surprised not to find a single Indian govt software being open sourced. This is despite the fact that most of them have horrible user experience and highly buggy. In all probability the code behind it would be equally poor. The govt. continues to spend crores of tax payers money to IT service providers to develop these abysmal portals instead of open sourcing it. Examples of some portals...