US Government Seeks Open-Source Translation

valdean writes "The Boston Globe is reporting that last week the United States Government began publishing captured Iraqi documents on the web in order to harness the translating talents of the bilingual public. The article calls it 'the same open source principle' that created Linux. Check out the Foreign Military Studies Office's document portal."

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slashdot as a weapon

[mtenhagen]

From the website:
"You are entering an Official United States Government System, which may be used only for authorized purposes. Unauthorized modification of any information stored on this system may result in criminal prosecution. The Government may monitor and audit the usage of this system, and all persons are hereby notified that use of this system constitutes consent to such monitoring and auditing."

This is just to create logs of the slashdot effect so they can use this to bring down enemy websites.

This is just plain propaganda, they only release documents for which they know the contents. This is just a bunch of crap