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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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FSF is as corrupt as any other company. As soon as th emoneybag starts ringing as soon it's over with all their philosophy and other crap. Well cash makes argumenting easier.
That's right! My US federal taxes went to fund the development of Unix, Internet protocol and now GPL software all to the world's benefit.
... I say we should stop handing out publicly funded technology!
Yet the world continues to hate the US
BSDish licensing only please.
and learn to spell.
...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 The simple fact is that proprietary systems gradually grow old, flaky, clunky, bloated and support is withdrawn from them (just witness the EOLs of various versions of Windows and Red Hat Linux we hear about here now and then).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.
This "project's" funding is morally corrupt on the level of Iraq War II. John Locke is spinning in his grave.
That doesn't count. It's not like the Canadians have a real governemnt; don't be silly.
WWD4D?