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It's good in a sense that we can look over the code for any tomfoolery, but unless there is a smoking gun, it's pretty worthless because it's closed source by nature, and any changes they make won't be published. Still, code nerds gonna code nerd.
Everything the US Federal government produces is Public Domain, by law.
Sure, but you have to file FOIA and wait. It's not truly open source.
Public Domain meets the OSI's definition of "open source" and the FSF's definition of "Free Software." What you're describing is the state of it not being published yet.
You are correct. I guess what I should have said is that this is what they want us to see, no necessarily what they are using.