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Navy Now Mandated To Consider FOSS As an Option

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the still-spending-$600-on-a-keyboard dept.

lisah writes "In a memorandum handed down from Department of the Navy CIO John Carey this week, the Navy is now mandated to consider open source solutions when making new software acquisitions. According John Weathersby, executive director of the Open Source Software Institute, this is the first in a series of documents that will also address 'development and distribution issues regarding open source within Navy IT environments.'"

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  1. Is the tide turning? by Smight · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Could it be that in a 180 degree turn, from the direction it has been going in for the last 200 years, the government will try to become slightly more cost effective?

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