[ale] Holy Cyber-Commies Batman! -or- Now two major powers (cyber-warfare combatants) moving government to open source.

[Jim Kinney]

China doesn't give a crap about bsd license. But since it is a smaller used
system than linux stuff, they can grow their own fork and expertise with
less bagage than converting a linux sme over to red bsd sme. It won't stay
bsd for long. Bsd doesn't seem as "hackerish" as linux and we all know how
well independent ideas are supported there.
On Dec 28, 2010 8:34 AM, "George Allen" <glallen01 at gmail.com> wrote:
> First China switching it's military to FreeBSD:
> http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/security/?p=1682
> and now apparently, Russia with Linux:
>
http://opendotdotdot.blogspot.com/2010/12/putin-orders-russian-move-to-gnulinux.html
>
> It's a bit disturbing that these announcements both have huge security
> implications, and almost no public mention. On the most simple
> analysis possible - they're diversifying away from windows as the
> standard bot-net/virus platform. Not to mention any of the benefits of
> government-open-source relative to intellectual property and IT
> security.
>
> I think the U.S. would be wise to take China's lead with FreeBSD - the
> license would allow us to fork it and make any private changes we want
> to contract for whatever system. This was my first guess as to why
> China chose FreeBSD rather than Linux, because they can own it.
>
> Wonder how long we'll keep buying licenses for this stuff with the
> public trust? Like building privately owned toll-roads with
> tax-dollars except not as publicly obvious.
> (Texan's didn't like that too much:
> http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSN2733044020070427)
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