[Am-info] Open source seeks growth in government market

[Fred A. Miller]

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"If you are China and you are deploying Microsoft across the military ... are
you going to choose to deploy software that has an undocumented interface that
allows systems to be shut down because you've got a dispute with an American
company that has a monopoly?" Tiemann asked.

National governments are coming up with the same answer, which is they don't
want to run software that demands they agree to "be hacked" by a single
American company. Instead they want to run software they can audit and
control, he said."

<http://computerworld.com/softwaretopics/os/linux/story/0,10801,75501,00.html>

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