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Navy Commissions Open Source R&D

Posted by Zonk on from the penguins-with-pips dept.

Lin_Matt writes "OSSI has announced a three year Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA) with the U.S. Navy to explore and expand the usage of Open Source Software. Barry Duplantis of Red Hat will be serving as the Program Manager for this CRADA which will cover the Navy's use of OSS within the Naval Oceanographic Office's Web services, scientific computing and enterprise architecture systems."

3 of 201 comments (clear)

  1. in Soviet Russia by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Linux faggots YOU!

    har har

    try the veal
    My proctologist is here all week

  2. Re:ethics by rokzy · · Score: 0, Troll

    abortion clinics haven't killed a single person.

    I'm not so sure the same can be said for anti-abortionists though.

  3. Re:Just curious by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Why would the Government need to use Linux at all? There are other Open Source OS's out there. Maybe better suited to various tasks than linux to boot.