Government use of OSS

[J]

The problem that folks in other parts of the world is not with Americans
or American products. The problem is certain actions of the American
government, something not to be confused with American people.

I would suppose the drive toward Open Source is helped by the fact that
the code can be viewed and that should help protect from back doors and
such.

Roger





Major.Mikey wrote:
> I mean that as haven't most OSS been developed by US citizins.
> 
> On Wednesday 09 November 2005 06:24 pm, Major.Mikey wrote:
> 
>>I find it funny that one of the reasons for some of the countries to
>>migrate is their anti-american sentiment. I uderstand that Linus is/was not
>>a US citizen (has he naturalized yet) but isn't that mostly who has
>>developed OSS? Seriously, wasn't GNU (the utilities) developed by a US
>>organization?
>>
>>On Wednesday 09 November 2005 03:23 pm, Matt Alexander wrote:
>>
>>>Here's an interesting article on the use of Open Source Software in the
>>>US and in several European governments:
>>>
>>>http://insight.zdnet.co.uk/0,39020415,39235707,00.htm
>>
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