[luau] News - Open Source is Good for America--US Military Advised

[Warren Togami]

Open Source is Good for America--US Military Advised
http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2002-10-29-009-26-NW-SW-PB

"A report commissioned by the US military concludes that open source and
free software should play a greater part in the infrastructure of the
world's remaining superpower.

"Mitre Corporation's 152-page study addresses the extent of software
libre, or FOSS-licensed software use - FOSS being "Free and Open Source
Software", an acronym uncomfortably evocative to this author of dental
hygiene--in various branches of the military.

"It's all over the place already, conclude the authors, and there should
be more of it.

"'In the long term removing FOSS would remove an important source of
price and quality competition. Without the constant pressure of
low-cost, high-quality FOSS product competing with the closed-source
products, the closed-source vendors could more easily fall into a cycle
in which their support costs balloon and costs are passed on to their
locked-in customers...'"

Several links with more information here:
http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2002-10-29-009-26-NW-SW-PB