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Government-Funded GPL Software

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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  1. Re:Is it just me... by shokk · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Gee I hope that guy in India that takes my job appreciates how my hard earned work paid for the taxes that funded the code that's letting him do his job cheaper (albeit, much crappier) than I can.

    Does no one really see anything wrong with this? There are people in the US without jobs who would love to get what these folks in India are being paid to do that same job. Can't we give it to them? It's not like we're getting good quality work from these overseas shops. Follow the JetBlue philosophy for tech support and set people up at home with SIP phones if you want to save the gargantuan costs of physical plants and network infrastructures. But, please keep things home-spun.

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  2. rite != right by Burb · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Bad start to an article when the first line contains a blunder like that...

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