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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. Re:Of course the government should use open source by Black+Parrot · · Score: 0, Troll


    > Where else could you write code that deploys missiles, cracks encryption, and spies on people and not get arrested?

    Write Outlook viruses?

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