DoD Study Urges OSS Adoption

Krishna Dagli writes to mention an Ars Technica article about the Open Technology Development road map, a report for the U.S. government advising the DoD on ways to integrate OSS into DoD policies. From the article: "The report argues that the standard practices associated with purchasing of physical goods are not adequate or fully applicable to software. According to the report, the DoD is 'limiting and restricting the ability of the market to compete for the provision of new and innovative solutions and capabilities' by 'treating DoD-developed software code as a physical good.' The report also points out that utilizing open source technology will force the commercial software industry to respond with greater agility and competitiveness."

Comments

Retraction

[krell]

Look for this to be retracted by tomorrow when someone at the DoD says "Sorry, we thought that 'OSS' referred to the agency that was the predecessor to the CIA".

This is rather elegant, actually

[republican gourd]

TFA boils down to a single premise:

1) Any individual struck by munitions powered by OSS is entitled to whatever rights are licensed to users of said software. For instance, if the missile was GPLed, any victims would be entitled to be cremated with a full copy of the source code and any encryption keys necessary to run said code on any homebrew missiles.

Re:Too bad the Army doesn't trust "freeware"

[BecomingLumberg]

Don't be so hard on yourself. You said the job pays well... that makes you and expensive whore.

Re:Somehow appropriate this time

[mrsev]

...yes yes yes, But I dont see how them only now adopting the Open Sound System will help. Most people now use ALSA for their sound needs. This is yet again the government wasting taxpayers money on outdated technology.