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Mandrake Secures French Ministry of Defense Deal

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the a-whole-lotta-moola dept.

Sfing_ter writes "According to this press release, Mandrake Linux has won a contract to provide a secure linux solution for the French Ministry of Defense. Would this make the FMOD more secure than the USDOD?"

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  1. More secure? by MrResistor · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I don't think the point is necessarily for the FMOD to be more secure than the USDOD, but rather to be more secure from the USDOD.

    That is, after all, one of the primary reasons so many foreign government entities are getting interested in FOSS. Microsoft's response, Shared Source, is weak, since while they get to look at the source, they have no way to guarantee that it's the actual source for what they're installing (assuming that they even get to see all of the source. IIRC, they don't)

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