Government-Funded GPL Software

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Government-Funded GPL Software

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Sunday June 13, 2004 @04:50AM from the buy-a-gnu-or-two dept.

tgw writes "Tom Adelstein has an article in 'Linux Journal' on how a major milestone in US government-funded OSS recently passed - virtually unnoticed." Slashdot has mentioned this company earlier.

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Re:What about SELinux? by ncurses · 2004-06-13 04:58 · Score: 3, Funny

Yeah, when I want security enhanced, I'll stick with tinfoil hat, thank you very much.

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wow government funding! by Anonymous Coward · 2004-06-13 04:58 · Score: 2, Funny

Linus Torvalds will be the richest man in the world!
Re:More Software for the World to Steel by Anonymous Coward · 2004-06-13 05:00 · Score: 1, Funny

Amen to that, brother.

See you at the klan meeting tonight?
No real innovation... by sammyo · 2004-06-13 05:01 · Score: 5, Funny

But now the Linux kernal will be rewritten in ADA!
Re:Software paid via public funding should not be by ifwm · 2004-06-13 05:03 · Score: 5, Funny

What about hardware? I'd really love to try one of those F-22's....
Re:Good or Evil? by Anonymous Coward · 2004-06-13 05:07 · Score: 3, Funny

Is this story from the good Linux Journal or from its evil twin?

You're thinking of Linux Gazette. Or possibly Linux Today. I don't think Linux Journal has caught onto the trend for having an evil identity yet. Still it might be a good idea to start a boycott now and beat the rush when they do.
Re:I will agree that is cool... by Bull999999 · 2004-06-13 05:26 · Score: 4, Funny

Here's a quick /. mod guide:

MS software sucks (+1 informative)

MS software can be made relatively secure (-1 troll)

Bill Gates sucks donkey dick (+1 funny)

Bill gates donates money to the charity (-1 flamebait)

Posts about how we are controled by the big corporation (+1 insiteful)

Posts about breaking corporation by education and boycotts (-1 troll)

Posts about how the government should provide everything (+1 underrated)

Posts about some people needing to get off of their lazy asses to work (-1 overrated)

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Re:Software paid via public funding should not be by Anonymous Coward · 2004-06-13 05:33 · Score: 2, Funny

Do you mean corporations looking to sell proprietary software such as Cisco & Microsoft, who pay no federal income tax?

Sure they don't pay federal income tax, but that doesn't mean that they don't pay large sums of money over to government leaders in other ways.
The US gov. is helping terror!!!!! by (1)down · 2004-06-13 05:48 · Score: 3, Funny

if you ask Mr. McBride

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Re:It just makes sense for the government to do th by deanj · 2004-06-13 05:55 · Score: 4, Funny

There's an old Dilbert cartoon in which the boss says the workers are going to get money for each bug they fix.... Wally says "I'm gonna go code myself a car!"

There's no way anyone will get tax credits for fixing bugs.
Re:Govt. releasing software as GPL should be illeg by Quill_28 · 2004-06-13 09:16 · Score: 2, Funny

Word can't express how much I agree with this statement. Mod up.