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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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Man, what is with all the pictures of teenagers partying on hackingthemainframe.com?
I'm proud to proclaim that I've read the article.
this is different from the current situation how?
these 'forces' that want DRM could just put it in themselves, bypassing the government step altogether. It is open source, after all.
I shoddy the position of his playboy nephew!
That way me and Tux can cruise in a hot convertible. We'd pick up loads of chicks - me with my former geek mystique and tux with his cuddly ways.
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.
"Beware of he who would deny you access to information, for in his heart, he dreams himself your master."
Bad start to an article when the first line contains a blunder like that...