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US Homeland Security to Support Open Source

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the read-the-grant-carefully dept.

An anonymous reader writes "CNET is reporting that the US Department of Homeland Security is extending its support to open source software. The DHS will be giving Stanford University, Coverity, and Symantec a $1.24 million grant to improve the security of open source software. From the article: 'The Homeland Security Department grant will be paid over a three-year period, with $841,276 going to Stanford, $297,000 to Coverity and $100,000 to Symantec, according to San Francisco-based technology provider Coverity, which plans to announce the award publicly on Wednesday.' It's nice that our tax dollars are being used for the right stuff."

6 of 186 comments (clear)

  1. Re:This is like... by waif69 · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    ...and he wouldn't? He is mentioned there enough times to use it for PR.

  2. Sighmantec by digitaldc · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I have seen Symantec not detect viruses that other AV products did. Makes me very weary of them now.

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  3. Re:This is like... by houghi · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Indeed. If I kicked out God of heaven, I would let people kill each other just to obay me as well.

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  4. More ScuttleMonkey? by amightywind · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Yesterday CmdrTaco takes the unusual step of explaining his rationale behind supporting spam submitters and link whores like ScuttleMonkey. He receives a ton of replies expressing dissatisfaction with the practice and suggesting remedies to the problem. What do we get today? 6 more ScuttleMonkey submissions. Am I missing something?

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    1. Re:More ScuttleMonkey? by Dunbal · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      It's either that or Piquepaille...

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  5. You don't know WTF you're talking about by brunes69 · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Nice try to hop on the bandwagon of an issue you are obviously ignorant to.

    ScuttleMonkey didn't post *any* stories, he is an editor, he merely *approved* them. No one gives a rats ass if ScuttleMonkey approves a large number of stories ina day, if they are good then it just means he is doing his job.

    The whole issue surrounds **Beatles-Beatles** and how every one of his submissions that are approved seem to go through ScuttleMonkey, and that he always links to a beatles-oriented site, in what is obviously a grab for PageRank. Many feel that there seems to be some kind of back-patting going on between **Beatles-Beatles** and ScuttleMonkey (why is it always ScuttleMOnkeyt hat approves his submissions? Why do so many of his submissions get approved?)

    So until you know the *real* issue, go back to sleep. There is nothing wrong with this article.