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Software Choice Group Tells DOD Not to Use Open Source

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the we-fear-change dept.

ducomputergeek writes "A group calling themselves the Initiative for Software Choice, backed by Microsoft and others, is recommending that the DOD drop plans for further adoption of Open Source software. This comes after MITRE, a defense contractor, published a report stating that not only does the Department of Defense use opensource, but is recommend on using it more. The article is at News.com and you can read it here."

2 of 410 comments (clear)

  1. Surprise by avaric3 · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Because of course, Microsoft is known in technological circles as having a very secure product. After all Windows Xp is the most secure operating system according to Microsoft.

  2. Re:Microsoft at al? by grokk · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    OS fanatics have been busy yabbering to anyone who'll listen why their utopian communist way

    I do not understand why you think that OpenSource is exempted from capitalist market forces. It is precisely the market forces that the OpenSource movement wants put into play and that MS et al is afraid of.

    Actually, Open Source -- or more accurately, Free Software -- is indeed communistic/communalist by its very nature; But it is also true that this phenomenon is being presently, uh, 'mediated' thru a distorting lens of capitalist relations...

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    EON condensed matter distributed-computing project.