=== This was taken from a warm discussion about the article "U.S. Army Warns Microsoft To Back Off" published at Slahdot:
"This problem is not government wide. (Score:5, Informative) by rindeee (530084) on Wednesday March 10, @08:48PM (#8527840)
I just returned from days of meetings that involved folks from the NMCI group, NSA, NIST, DoD, NAVSECGRU , CyberCorps and lots of others. I can assure you that within this area of the Fed (cyber-warfare, crypto, security, intel, etc.) that MS is a laughing stock. In the past this hasn't mattered terribly, but you have to understand that now things are very different. NSA/NIST (partnering as NIAP) now set the standard that all other agencies from the CIA down to the Dept. of Ag MUST follow. They establish the common criteria, define new directives and standards, etc. etc. aud nausiem.
While MS isn't being thrown out, they are being gelded. It is a matter of time until the attitude held by these folks permiates the Fed as a whole.
*Linux is being pushed not becuase it's free, but because it's more readily secured.*
Much talk was bantied about on lots of OSS packages. I personally gave an impromptu class after hours to some of the less technical folks on installing and using Thunderbird + Enigmail + WinPT (GPG).
Perhaps Linux/OSS truly is viral. It certainly is spreading as if it were. Keep the faith my friends."
=== And, in another passage:
"Office Product Activation=Security Risk (Score:4, Informative) by AnalogDiehard (199128) on Wednesday March 10, @11:40PM (#8528999)
I used to work in a classified secured area.
Military and classified networks are walled fortresses with complete isolation from the internet world. They do not tolerate breaches of this nature that puts classified data at risk. If even a laptop enters from the outside world, it will not leave without a complete wipe of the hard drive, memory, and any other removable media. No exceptions.
M$ Office Product Activation phones home over the Internet. That's a no-no in a classified secured area.
Someone at M$ is going to get das boot."
=== I wonder how does the above fit in public (state owned) healthcare facilities?
=== And what about this sugestion?
"OpenOffice? (Score:5, Interesting) by ErichTheWebGuy (745925) on Wednesday March 10, @08:33PM (#8527710)
Wonder what would happen if we all sent OpenOffice.org CD-ROMS [http://distribution.openoffice.org/cdrom/] to not only the Army, but to other government agencies? Seems like a fantastic marketing idea to me, and I dont think (?) that employees would be breaking ethics rules, since it is free software."
=== If you have the extra time take a look at that amusing and informative article at: http://slashdot.org/zoo.pl?op=check&uid=530084&type=friend
J. Antas
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