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Government-Funded GPL Software

Posted by ryuzaki0 on 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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  1. I think OSS is an inevitable step... by James+A.+S.+Joyce · · Score: 1, Troll

    ...on the governmental software road. The simple fact is that proprietary systems gradually grow old, flaky, clunky, bloated and support is withdrawn from them (just witness the EOLs of various versions of Windows and Red Hat Linux we hear about here now and then). Open source software, on the other hand, can be hacked upon by anyone who wants to use it, any new functionality can be grafted on or removed, and the result can be redistributed for nothing? How can proprietary software complete? It's just that simple.

  2. Re:not the first by druhol · · Score: 0, Troll

    That doesn't count. It's not like the Canadians have a real governemnt; don't be silly.

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