But Linux is not 100% used by NSA (or is it NASA), or all fortune top 500 companies, or China, or India, etc, etc. Or how about those proprietary, non-FOSS running inside those Linux boxes? So why our government will favor FOSS 100% for all ICT implementations while these companies/countries/etc are not going for a full, 100% adoption of FOSS?
http://www.nsa.gov/selinux/ <quote> As part of its Information Assurance mission, the National Security Agency has long been involved with the computer security research community in investigating a wide range of computer security topics including operating system security. Recognizing the critical role of operating system security mechanisms in supporting security at higher levels, researchers from NSA's Information Assurance Research Group have been investigating an architecture that can provide the necessary security functionality in a manner that can meet the security needs of a wide range of computing environments. </quote> If there is something to be paranoid about US of A which most conspiracy theories arise... in films, fictions (X-files) or whatever, NSA is a real agency. Yes there are issues with the use of proprietary softwares within Linux that even Stallman and Theo de Raadt criticized the UN One Laptop Per Child Project because it will use some devices that require NDA's to write drivers, and some parts require firmware that cannot be freely redistributed. http://linux.slashdot.org/linux/06/10/10/1232241.shtml On adoption of FOSS for government, it is a journey of thousand miles that will begin in a single, the Berlin experiance could be a nice example, like what you said its not the silver bullet and it doesnt come cheap. Goverment agencies and private corporations should take their own initiatives based on their needs and requirement in adopting FOSS. thad -- sometimes truth is stranger than fiction -bad religion- http://www.bloglines.com/blog/mailist _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Read the Guidelines: http://linux.org.ph/lists Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
