Military Enlists Open Source Community

jmwci1 writes "The US Defense Department is enlisting an open source approach to software development — an about-face for such a historically top-down organization. In recent weeks, the military has launched a collaborative platform called Forge.mil for its developers to share software, systems components and network services. The agency also signed an agreement with the Open Source Software Institute to allow 50 internally developed workforce management applications to be licensed to other government agencies, universities and companies."

Comments

What wants to kill for cash?

[Anonymous Coward]

Okay. Who wants to kill for free?

I Dunno

[MightyMartian]

This could end badly. Here's all these geeks working hard at coding, only to be interrupted by one of their own doing a mock-Python "Stop the skit! This is much too silly." and then everyone doing the "military fairy" song.

The Pentagon may not survive.

How dare they?

[fuzzyfuzzyfungus]

Bloody open-sores communists. Don't they know that military contractors have a god given right to profit?

Re:How dare they?

[Dielectric]

What does mil-spec code look like? Do you have to put //SIR! after every semicolon?

Re:Why does this story have a red header?

[moniker127]

Its red because its a new post, with no comments.
It WAS that is.

Until you de-redified it.

Bug #222896: App terminates with big explosion

[Anonymous Coward]

This isn't supposed to happen until our personel have reached safe distance.

Bogus: This issue was fixed in SVN 2 months ago.

i knew it

[FudRucker]

the Terminator runs on Linux!