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Open Source Software In the Military

Posted by kdawson on 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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  1. Re:Glad To See It by Nathrael · · Score: 1, Troll

    It is sad to see that being supportive of one's country is now regarded as troll-ish on Slashdot.

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