[luau] If someone ask you about Linux...

ronal ronal at aloha.com
Mon Jun 30 04:26:01 PDT 2003


If someone ask you what is happening with Open Source and Linux? Ask the
DoD...

http://www.forbes.com/2003/06/20/cz_eb_0620linux.html

The Feds Love Linux
Erika Brown, 06.20.03, 8:20 AM ET

...The DOD's approval seems a bit late in coming; a recent report confirms
that the agency has been a fan of open source for some time. In January,
MITRE, a not-for-profit organization that does research on government
projects, published a 168-page report commissioned by the Defense
Information Systems Agency which identified 115 open-source applications
already at work within the DOD. They included Apache, Linux via Red Hat
(nasdaq: RHAT - news - people ), Perl and Sendmail as well as lesser-known
programs such as Snort, Squid and SATAN.

The term "open source" may sound like an invitation to be hacked, but Linux
is often more secure than proprietary systems. In defense and security, the
attitude is that if the code can't be seen, it can't be trusted--it could be
riddled with bugs, loopholes and hidden backdoors. But technological
diversity lowers the risk of cyber-attacks on widely deployed systems. And
when an emergency hits, agencies want to solve problems quickly by getting
inside the base code without being dragged down by some company's
damage-control center.

[How many times have we had to reply to that statement! It is not so
important how the statement is addressed, but the fact that a major media
publication has reported on the most powerful company[org] in USA.]




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