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 them explain their position concerning their "open" architecture 
 UltraSparc-III - and fails due to Sun's no response politics.
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+
+<li><font color="#009000"><strong>
+<a href="http://www.egovos.org/pdf/dodfoss.pdf">Use of Free and 
+Open-Source Software (FOSS) in the U.S. Department of Defense</a>,
+MITRE Report Number MP 02 W0000101, revised January 2, 2003
+</strong></font><br>
+Prepared by The MITRE Corporation for DISA (Defense Information Systems Agency),
+this report analyses how DOD uses open source software.
+The summary talks briefly about various terms (free, open source, etc.),
+then talks about the survey itself, one question of which was 
+"... the hypothetical question ...
+of what would happen if FOSS software were banned in the DoD."
+<br>
+"The main conclusion of the analysis was that FOSS software plays
+a more critical role in the DoD than has generally been recognized.
+FOSS applications are most important in four broad areas: Infrastructure
+Support, Software Development, Security, and Research. One unexpected
+result was the degree to which Security depends on FOSS. Banning
+FOSS would remove certain types of infrastructure components (e.g.,
+<a href="http://www.openbsd.org/">OpenBSD<a>) that currently help 
+support network security. 
+It would also limit DoD access to, and overall expertise in, the use of 
+powerful FOSS analysis and detection applications that hostile groups could
+use to help stage cyberattacks. Finally, it would remove the
+demonstrated ability of FOSS applications to be updated rapidly in
+response to new types of cyberattack. Taken together, these factors
+imply that banning FOSS would have immediate, broad, and strongly
+negative impacts on the ability of many sensitive and security-focused
+DoD groups to defend against cyberattacks."
+<br>
+So, let's hope the policy wonks read this report.
+<p>
+
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