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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.'"

2 of 279 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Generally Recognised as Safe. by leviramsey · · Score: 1, Redundant

    There's a reason qmail's not listed: it's not Free Software!

  2. FOSS? by captaineo · · Score: 1, Redundant

    I know it's DoD SOP to coin TLAs for everything, but FOSS is just lame. Reminds me of dental FOSS.

    Guess they couldn't use OSS, cause that's another government agency, right? What about DFSG...