[PLUG] Open Source battle at Pentagon...

[Russ Johnson]

The key word here is not testing. The key word is "purchasing". Since most 
OSS is free, there's no purchasing to it.

:)))

At 12:53 PM 5/23/2002 -0700, you wrote:
>I think the last paragraph is interesting where it says "Stenbit said
>that the debate is academic and that what matters is how secure a given
>piece of software is. To that end, the Defense Department is now
>prohibited from purchasing any software that has not undergone security
>testing by the NSA. Stenbit said he is unaware of any open-source software
>that has been tested."

Russ Johnson
http://www.dimstar.net


Blamestorming:

Sitting around in a group discussing why a deadline was missed or a project 
failed, and who was responsible.