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Military Enlists Open Source Community

Posted by samzenpus on from the freedom-is-free dept.

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."

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  1. Why does this story have a red header? by Sowelu · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Why does this story have a red header? I've never seen this before. What's going on?

    1. Re:Why does this story have a red header? by LostCluster · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      Subscribers are used to seeing the red header... it indicates a story that's ready to go but hasn't been released. /. policy seems to be it's better to give a "free preview" to the non-subscribers than to make the subscribers go without when there's a glitch.