Skip to Content.
Sympa Menu

internetworkers - Re: U.S. military under attack

internetworkers AT lists.ibiblio.org

Subject: Internetworkers: http://www.ibiblio.org/internetworkers/

List archive

Chronological Thread  
  • From: "Michael D. Thomas" <mdthomas AT mindspring.com>
  • To: "InterNetWorkers" <internetworkers AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: Re: U.S. military under attack
  • Date: Thu, 23 May 2002 20:56:38 -0400



Related article on the differences between the closed development model vs.
the open development model wrt to security.

http://www.salon.com/tech/col/rose/2002/04/12/microsoft_man_months/index.html



----- Original Message -----
From: "David R. Matusiak" <matusiak AT speakeasy.net>
To: "InterNetWorkers" <internetworkers AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
Sent: Thursday, May 23, 2002 11:33 AM
Subject: [internetworkers] Re: U.S. military under attack


> <Nelson>
> HA! HA!
> </Nelson>
> ___ _ _____ . ....
> m a h t o o z e e a c k a t s p e e k e e z e e d o t n e t
> ------ / / ......... . . .
>
> 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
>
>
> ---
> Come and play at the InterNetWorkers Web site!
http://www.ibiblio.org/internetworkers/
> You are currently subscribed to internetworkers as: mdthomas AT mindspring.com
> To unsubscribe send a blank email to
$subst('Email.Unsub')
>







Archive powered by MHonArc 2.6.24.

Top of Page