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  • From: "David R. Matusiak" <matusiak AT speakeasy.net>
  • To: InterNetWorkers <internetworkers AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: Re: U.S. military under attack
  • Date: Thu, 23 May 2002 08:33:20 -0700 (PDT)


<Nelson>
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On Thu, 23 May 2002, Thomas Beckett wrote:

> ... 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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