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MITRE Corp. Report On Open Source In Government
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.'"
GIANTS lost. Motherfuckers!
cool
In PDF - they've learned not to use Microsoft Word
.doc file, so it's slower to download too!
and it's a darn shame...
I hate it when documents are in a format that requires me to download a 10 meg viewer program to view in windows, while you can open up any old word file in wordpad (which comes with windows). It's nice to inconvenience 90% of computer users. PDF files also tend to be huge compared to
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Who cares about open source in Government? I want my tax dollars going to Bill Gates instead of some backholed scriptkiddie free linucks bullshit just waiting to get xp10i73d.
I FUCKED YOUR MOM
qmail (queermail), and dbjdns (dick blowjob dns) are both fucking nasty crap and not worth the trouble. I don't know why the nutcase that wrote these hunks of shit doesn't just write his own OS, since he can't seem to write software that can work properly in the enviorment the software is intended to be deployed in.
There is no way in hell that I would ever stake the health of a production system on kook-ware like queermail or dick-blowjob-dns. I'll fucked if I'm going make my system dependent on the whims of some nutty prick that thinks he's clever because he's a math geek.
If you absolutely can't stand sendmail (or are simply too fucking stupid to figure it out) then Postfix is a much better alternative.
So, do you distribute that hacked-to-hell "open source" code, if you're so confident in its abilities?
Imagine if an Al-Qaeda hacker -- trust me, some computer science programs and IRC channels in this country and especially in Europe are not unlike those flight schools for them -- got ahold of some of that open-source code, browsed through it, and immediately found a really nasty root exploit due to some quickly-hacked up code.
Do you think he would be altruistic enough to report it, or would he try everything he could to cause havoc -- perhaps give out wrong intelligence to troops so they could cause another Afghan Wedding Party massacre or Chinese Embassy bombing, or steal some valuable intelligence and use it to plan terror attacks?
While open source is good, the DoD should be a bit more careful about being so open.