[ale] open source wars at DOD

Jim Philips jcphil at mindspring.com
Fri May 24 11:46:31 EDT 2002


Remember the report earlier this week about how Microsoft was warning the DOD 
against the dangers of open source programs? Well, now tyhere is an internal 
DOD report that has come to the conclusion that open source is often "more 
secure" and "less expensive". You can be sure the PR warriors at the Evil 
Empire won't let that assertion go unchallenged. Read all about it here:

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

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