Open Source Software In the Military

Posted by kdawson on Sunday July 19, 2009 @12:04AM from the keep-it-stupid-stupid dept.

JohnMoD writes With the advent of forge.mil, etc. the military seems to be getting on board with free and open source software. A working group meeting is going to be held at Georgia Tech in Atlanta, August 12-13, 2009. There's a pretty good lineup of speakers including a Marine from the Iraq-Marine Expeditionary Forces, who was on the ground and saw the agility open source gave to him and his soldiers. A number of OSS projects are going to be meeting there: Delta 3D, OpenCPI, FalconView, OSSIM, Red Hat, etc. Looks like there will be some good discussions."

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Requires US$200 Certificate to contribute. by cellurl · 2009-07-19 02:30 · Score: 0, Flamebait

I tried to submit code. You have to get a $200 certificate and it has to be from symatec or one other. Forge.mil does not allow any of the cheap or free certificates companies. Screw em, I got better places to give away my time.