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 them explain their position concerning their "open" architecture  them explain their position concerning their "open" architecture
 UltraSparc-III - and fails due to Sun's no response politics.  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
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   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."
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   "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.
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 <h2>December, 2002</h2>  <h2>December, 2002</h2>
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