Government use of OSS

[Dan Lund]

I think the primary sentiment is that it's not controlled by the US
govt indirectly.  I mean, how much would it really take to have the US
govt have secret talks with Microsoft and have them include a
backdoor.
It was talked about in the late 90's.
With OSS, it's assumed that since the code is open, at least one
person has cruised the code enough to know there isn't some ultra-l33t
backdoor that the NSA or other organization could use "in the name of
terror prevention".

--Dan

On 11/9/05, Major.Mikey <bmike1 at mcleodusa.net> 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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