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

Re:Scary

[MikeBabcock]

Want to back that up? Or are you just a FUD-monger? Last I checked the DoD ran a pretty tight ship and actually bothered investigating their hardware and software purchases more thoroughly than most Fortune-500 types do.

Re:Well...

[WilliamSChips]

Actually, the 'no military' clause was a takeoff of Asimov's First Law and said that a modification of the software was not allowed to be used to harm a human being. It's still a stupid clause though.