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  • From: Thomas Beckett <thomas AT tbeckett.com>
  • To: internetworkers AT franklin.oit.unc.edu
  • Subject: U.S. military under attack
  • Date: Thu, 23 May 2002 00:31:44 -0400


... from Microsoft.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A60050-2002May22.html

"Microsoft Corp. is aggressively lobbying the Pentagon to squelch its growing use of freely distributed computer software and switch to proprietary systems such as those sold by the software giant, according to officials familiar with the campaign."

The good guys may yet prevail.

"But the effort may have backfired. A May 10 report prepared for the Defense Department concluded that open source often results in more secure, less expensive applications and that, if anything, its use should be expanded."

TaB





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