[ale] open source wars at DOD

[Jonathan Rickman]

On Fri, 24 May 2002, Jim Philips wrote:

> 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

No sweat. A few well placed campaign contributions will have this whole
mess cleaned up in short order.

"The company also complained that the Pentagon is funding research on
making free software more secure, which in effect subsidizes Microsoft's
open-source competitors, Stenbit said."

Well, in that case, Microsoft owes the writers of Nimda, Code-Red, and
whatever they're calling that SQL worm today, a few million dollars for
"subsidizing" Microsoft's own security improvements. I suppose it's lost
on them that Microsoft Internet Explorer seems to have been Georgi
Guninski's pet project for the last 3 years and that he has probably
single handedly done more for securing it than Microsoft's army of weenies
could ever do. Not fair. Not fair.

Oh well, back to the eye doctor for me.

-- 
Jonathan Rickman
X Corps Security
http://www.xcorps.net


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