Open Source is Good for America--US Military Advised http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2002-10-29-009-26-NW-SW-PB
"A report commissioned by the US military concludes that open source and free software should play a greater part in the infrastructure of the world's remaining superpower. "Mitre Corporation's 152-page study addresses the extent of software libre, or FOSS-licensed software use - FOSS being "Free and Open Source Software", an acronym uncomfortably evocative to this author of dental hygiene--in various branches of the military. "It's all over the place already, conclude the authors, and there should be more of it. "'In the long term removing FOSS would remove an important source of price and quality competition. Without the constant pressure of low-cost, high-quality FOSS product competing with the closed-source products, the closed-source vendors could more easily fall into a cycle in which their support costs balloon and costs are passed on to their locked-in customers...'" Several links with more information here: http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2002-10-29-009-26-NW-SW-PB
