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Who Opposes Open Source Software In Government?

Posted by timothy on from the usual-suspects-at-length dept.

Skapare writes "Linux Journal is doing a story with a roundup of who the players are that are opposing open source in governments. The one I find interesting is the Gates connection to BSA. But I think we all need to become familiar with this round-up of special interest groups not operating in our interests (as taxpayers)."

3 of 501 comments (clear)

  1. Re:our interest? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    OpenBSD is very secure out of the box but as soon as some semiskilled admin starts installing stuff and setting stuff up then it can end up as secure as an average Win98 install. Although I would imagine that it probably depends on the admin I would suspect that once it is configured and deployed the average OpenBSD box in no more (or less) secure than the average NetBSD or FreeBSD or Linux box.

  2. Re:our interest? by Cat_Byte · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I never said I depended on up2date. I said I subscribed to security update mailing lists. BTW those usually come out before the patch. You're missing my point tho. The parent thread said "Linux is secure, secure, SECURE." implying something the majority of *nix users adhere to & end up being one of the compromised machines trying to get into my network & trying to send email via open relay.

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    Two roads diverged in a wood, and I - I took the one the bus load of girls just went down.
  3. Re:The world is changing by timeOday · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    Oh please, I posted for a couple of years as AC just because I didn't want to bother with an account and didn't see the need. Good ideas and observations stand on their own legs, not on authority. I finally got an account because it was too hard to find responses to my postings.

    Anyways, there's no accountability in a forum like this. Sure, you can tie my messages together by my handle, so what? You still can't scowl at me as we pass in the hallway, or fire me, or loan me power tools. It's pretend-world.