If someone ask you what is happening with Open Source and Linux? Ask the DoD...
http://www.forbes.com/2003/06/20/cz_eb_0620linux.html The Feds Love Linux Erika Brown, 06.20.03, 8:20 AM ET ...The DOD's approval seems a bit late in coming; a recent report confirms that the agency has been a fan of open source for some time. In January, MITRE, a not-for-profit organization that does research on government projects, published a 168-page report commissioned by the Defense Information Systems Agency which identified 115 open-source applications already at work within the DOD. They included Apache, Linux via Red Hat (nasdaq: RHAT - news - people ), Perl and Sendmail as well as lesser-known programs such as Snort, Squid and SATAN. The term "open source" may sound like an invitation to be hacked, but Linux is often more secure than proprietary systems. In defense and security, the attitude is that if the code can't be seen, it can't be trusted--it could be riddled with bugs, loopholes and hidden backdoors. But technological diversity lowers the risk of cyber-attacks on widely deployed systems. And when an emergency hits, agencies want to solve problems quickly by getting inside the base code without being dragged down by some company's damage-control center. [How many times have we had to reply to that statement! It is not so important how the statement is addressed, but the fact that a major media publication has reported on the most powerful company[org] in USA.]
