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Microsoft Battles Free Software at Pentagon

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the attack-of-the-lobbyists dept.

Spirit of Ishmael writes "The May 22 Washington Post is running a story under the headline Microsoft Fights Free Software at Pentagon. According to the story: 'Microsoft Corp. is aggressively lobbying the Pentagon to squelch its growing use of freely distributed computer software and switch to proprietary systems such as those sold by the software giant, according to officials familiar with the campaign.'"

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  1. National Security by pumpknhd · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    The attempt to root out open-source programs will probably be done under the pretense of national security. How unfortunate.

  2. Re:The Navy Loves Windows NT! by andrewski · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Why in the fuck was the navy using Windows NT, when they could have been using Solaris or Linux or even fucking HP-UX? What were they thinking? An OS that is known to crash as often as NT, without any recourse in case of a crash, is obviously a very poor choice. How long do you think that this ship is designed to be away from port? Six months, a year, who knows! You should probably install an OS that will run for at least that long WITHOUT crashing, that's just common sense.