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Defense Dept. Memo Explains Open Source Policy
TonyStanco writes "Big news. DoD issued a policy statement leveling the playing field for Open Source. We have the memo on the Center of Open Source & Government site." The requirements listed in this memo make me think of a company policy along the lines of "You can bring your baby or toddler to work, so long as it can talk, feed itself and stick effortlessly to the ceiling like a spider." See this PDF for more information about National Security Telecommunications and Information Systems Security Policy (NSTISSP) number 11.
You can bring your baby or toddler to work, so long as it can talk, feed itself and stick effortlessly to the ceiling like a spider." Thanks for that, now everytime the AC comes out at work I'm going to expect an army of spider-babies to pop out and steal my printer.
It's not stupid. It's advanced.
Isn't that putting it a bit strongly?
"It's the height of ridiculousness to say for those 9 lines you get hundreds of millions."
What is bureaucracy?
This guy wants to clean out a room in the Pentagon, stacked to the ceiling with boxes labeled, "non-essential documents". So he starts a study showing how much space they can save by ridding themselves of all of these useless documents.
A few months later they complete this study, and send it up for a review. A board determines that this is a great idea and they can in fact save tons of space by ridding themselves of all of these documents, with one stipulation. They must make copies of all the documents for their records...
Craenor
and stick effortlessly to the ceiling like a spider
Better start here then.
My toddler can do all that. Can't yours?
....Bethanie....
The PDF linked from the article is also dated Jan 2000, and also doesn't mention the GPL ...
<shrug>
Repton.
They say that only an experienced wizard can do the tengu shuffle.
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Also known as the 'trainspotting' child policy.
iopha
"You can bring your baby or toddler to work, so long as it can talk, feed itself and stick effortlessly to the ceiling like a spider."
Hi Timothy, we'd like to make you an honorary member of our organization - PIFCA (People Incapable of Forming Cogent Analogies).
You belong with us like a marmot is comfortable with peanut butter.
The correlation between ignorance of statistics and using "correlation is not causation" as an argument is close to 1.
You can bring your baby or toddler to work, so long as it can talk, feed itself and stick effortlessly to the ceiling like a spider."
In other news, Safeco has been reported to have replaced all their acustic cieling material with velco in order that their company wide pre-toddler policy can be implemented. In order to prevent possible liability, they had to replace their traditional furnature with what can only be described as a rubber room.
When asked about the subject, representatives of Safeco were unavailable for comment, but issued the following statement, "we are cleaning baby vomit out of our clothing".
According to one district manager, "I can't tell if productivity is up or down, i'm stuck. Help!".
There is no sanctuary. There is no sanctuary. SHUT UP! There is no shut up. There is no shut up.
Why bother with OSS when you can simply pay $30,000 per Microsoft license? They paid that much for a toilet, they might as well pay that much more for something to flush down it!
I HAVE COME TO CONQUER YOU ALL, EARTH SCUM!
How else would you eval something :)
Depending on the time period:
"Is it IBM? If not, you're fired." or "Is it IBM? If so, you're fired."
--TheOrangeSquid Is it any wonder things seem so awry? We swim in a sea of confusion and don't have to think to survive
If you GPLed the software that controls your guided missiles, where are you going to get a platform to run it on? Meanwhile, perhaps some of the guidance algorithms could be modified into something useful to the general public. After all, they are *my* missiles too - my taxes paid for them.
You can bring your baby or toddler to work, so long as it can talk, feed itself and stick effortlessly to the ceiling like a spider.
Stewie?