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MITRE Corp. Report On Open Source In Government

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the who's-using-what-where-why dept.

Jeremy Allison (of the Samba team) writes "Very interesting paper just published by MITRE corporation. (In PDF - they've learned not to use Microsoft Word. :-). Highlights: 'The main conclusion of the article was that FOSS software plays a more critical role in the DoD than has generally been recognised.'; 'Create a "Generally Recognised as Safe" FOSS list ... including Linux, OpenBSD, NetBSD, FreeBSD, Samba, Apache, Perl, GCC, GNAT, XFree86, OpenSSH, bind, and sendmail.' 'FOSS' stands for 'Free and Open-Source Software.' Looks like these people 'get it.'"

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  1. Re:Rock on. by kpansky · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Your link is wrong... for Halloween fun go to here. :)

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    --Kevin
  2. Re:PDF format freer than Word? by zenyu · · Score: 3, Offtopic

    Only half true. Microsoft offers [microsoft.com] a little known Word 2000 viewer (and similar viewers for Excel etc) that is available gratis [microsoft.com]. It's only free as in beer. I can use xpdf and the like to view pdf's... Also I've had the experience of the Word Viewer crashing on complex word documents. Only ones from Microsofties so far, but even so it's sad when I have to turn to openoffice to view a word file (even if it takes minutes to render a page), and then convert it to postscript to be able to view it in something solid like ghostview.