[CLUE-Talk] Re: Open Source Fight Flares at Pentagon

[Mike Benavides]

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>  1. Re: Wash Post: Open-Source Fight Flares at Pentagon (Jed S. Baer)
>  2. Palm Emulator on Zaurus (Dave Price)
>  3. MPAA and Senate...again (Crawford Rainwater)
>  4. Re: MPAA and Senate...again (Jed S. Baer)
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>Message: 1
>Date: Thu, 23 May 2002 12:44:55 -0600
>From: "Jed S. Baer" <thag at frii.com>
>To: clue-talk at clue.denver.co.us
>Subject: Re: [CLUE-Talk] Wash Post: Open-Source Fight Flares at Pentagon
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>On Thu, 23 May 2002 08:29:08 -0600
>"Crawford Rainwater" <crawford.rainwater at itec-co.com> wrote:
>
>>From Slashdot.org, referencing the full article
>>from the Washington Post:
>>
>>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A60050-2002May22.html
>>
>>Have to love it when Microsoft shoots themselves in
>>the foot.  Nice notes in the article on how "more secure"
>>Open Source software, less expense, and should be
>>expanded within the Pentagon.
>>
>
>Particulary interesting in light of their admission that their software is
>flawed:
>
>>From ESR's blog:
>The cat is out of the bag. During testimony before a federal judge,
>Microsoft executive Jim Allchin has admitted that some code critical to
>the security of Microsoft products is so flawed it could not be safely
>disclosed to other developers or the public.
>
>http://armedndangerous.blogspot.com/ (ESR)
>http://www.eweek.com/article/0,3658,s%253D701%2526a%253D26875,00.asp
>
Jed:

I had the pleasure in attending the one and only 1st and only Linux 
Federal Open Source Forum where Mitre Corp.
made their Linux push two years ago to the Pentagon.  I got to meet the 
CIO of the Army who was already testing Linux but, as usual he needed 
the C2 cert. to say it was blessed by the feds like NT4.0.  That was pre 
NSA harden Linux.  What is cool is this is really shaking up the 
political establishment. Mitre is big and carries alot of weight in the 
Pentagon.

Mike