The report on open source is credited to Mitre Corp. "Mitre" stands for MIT Research, and it doesn't get any spookier than Mitre. I would say that almost nothing Mitre does is not (double negative, I know) heavily classified. My thought would be that the Pentagon is very likely to follow Mitre's advice.
Of course, M$ has its shills: ""I've never seen a systematic study that showed open source to be more secure," said Dorothy Denning, a professor of computer science at Georgetown University who specializes in information warfare." She's probably also never seen a tiger eat a human, but I bet she stays away from tigers. Mitre's advice makes sense for the Pentagon. Why would the Pentagon want to use software that's a black box? Of course, medical applications are different... John >Thanks to Philippe Aigrain for posting this on the FreeSW list.... > ><http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A60050-2002May22.html>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A60050-2002May22.html ><http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/05/23/0320226&mode=thread&tid=109>http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/05/23/0320226&mode=thread&tid=109 > >Joseph > >------- >J. Dal Molin > >e-cology corporation ><http://www.e-cology.ca>www.e-cology.ca > >1.416.232.1206
