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Advocating Open Source Within the Gov't

Posted by Hemos on from the making-headway-within-the-powers-that-be dept.

There's an interesting piece running on Newsforge concerning advocacy of Open Source within the (US) Federal Government. The Feds, as we've talked about here before, are caught in an interesting cross fire - and based on personal experience, I can tell you that they are looking at it. Carpe Diem, folks.

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  1. Heh. by wedg · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    First post? Yeah. It's lame.

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    Jake
    Dating: while( 1 ){ call_girl(); get_rejected(); drink_40(); } return 0;
  2. Carpe Diem? by eric_aka_scooter · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Carpe Diem? Doesn't that mean "seize the fish"?

  3. Bakunin Quotes by Commienst · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    "If God really existed, it would be necessary to abolish him."

    "We have nothing to say to this, for we are indeed atheists, and we take pride in it, in so far as pride can be permitted to wretched individuals who like waves rise up for a moment and then vanish in the vast collective ocean of human society."

    "And that, as is the case with all established powers, would consist in its endeavor to perpetuate itself in power and consolidate its position by rendering the society placed in its care even more stupid and consquently ever more in the need of being governed and directed by such a body."

    "Everyone views society from the angle of an exploiter. But when all are exploiters, they necessarily must divide into fortunate and unfortunate exploiters, for every exploitation presupposes the existence of persons exploited. There are actual exploiters and those who can be classed in that category only when taken in the potential sense of this term. The latter consitute the majority of people whom simply aspire to become exploiters but are not such in reality, being in fact ceaselessly exploited."

    "The sacremental formula for governing the masses of people - for their own good no doubt, for the salvation of their souls, if not their bodies - used by saints as well as by the nobles in the theocratic and aristocratic States, and also by the intellectuals and the rich people in the doctrinaire, liberal, and even republican States based upon universal suffrage, is always the same: "Everything for the people, nothing by the people."

    All Quotes herein are the property of Mihail Alexandrovich Bakunin

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    I am into the copy and paste.
  4. Wow, no sense of humor here... by eric_aka_scooter · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    You guys take things so seriously, learn to laugh a little. Enjoy life. :-)

  5. Carpe Diem... by tomknight · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    Carpe Diem... to quote Buffy:

    "Fish of the day?"

    (And yes, of course I bloody well know what it means)

    Tom.

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    Oh arse
  6. Gov't Contracts by Rev.LoveJoy · · Score: 1, Offtopic
    Did anyone else find the discussion about how gov't contract work really fascinating? That sucessful gov't contractors spread their contracts over multiple congressional districts as a defensive maneuver against budget cuts is a bit ... creepy.

    I realize that this is The Way Things Work, but is it right? or is it merely the propogation of a sucessful strategy?

    Myself, I'm not sure that the way to legitmize Linux in gov't is to politic it in - 'bidness' aside. Getting in front of the policital movers and shakers and presenting facts is one thing. Using that time to pork barrel your own certification company strikes me as distinctly another, regardless of whether or not this is the way things are done.

    Cheers,
    -- RLJ

  7. Child Psychiatry is a fraud! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Stop turning kids into doped up crackheads!!(at least wait until they are 14 or so and turn themselves into dope fiends)