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A compelling case for open source within the DoD

Paul Murphy: "Any military officer now in a decision-making role who fails to react effectively to the threat posed by the combination of Microsoft's reliance on obscurity for its operating-system security and communist China's access to the code eventually could be charged with dereliction of duty." This is a powerful argument in favor of replacing Microsoft code with open source code within all Department of Defense computers.

Posted on May 3, 2004 at 03:07 PM | Permalink

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