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CIA Software Developer Goes Open Source, Instead
jamie found this piece, at Wired's Danger Room from a couple of days back, about an encouraging sign for the growth of open source in the military / intelligence sphere. "For three years, Matthew Burton has been trying to get a simple, useful software tool into the hands of analysts at the Central Intelligence Agency. For three years, haggling over the code’s intellectual property rights has kept the software from going anywhere near Langley. So now, Burton’s releasing it — free to the public, and under an open source license."
Because I am too damn lazy to retype something most people could dig up on their own with the judicious use of a search engine or two.
Link or it didn't happen. Or put another way, provide a citation or shut the hell up. And let's not just have an opinion puff piece from Salon, which jumped the shark a long fucking time ago.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"