Check this post on Slashdot.
This PDF article, written by Kenneth Brown of ADTI, attempts to explain that "Open source GPL use by government agencies could easily become a nation security concern. Government use of software in the public domain is exceptionally risky."
http://www.adti.net/html_files/defense/old_opensource_whitepaper.pdf
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Check this link in response to the ADTI report. http://online.securityfocus.com/news/473
Shankar
----- Original Message ----- From: "Ashok Iyer" ashok_linux@yahoo.com To: linuxers@mm.ilug-bom.org.in Sent: Tuesday, June 11, 2002 8:56 AM Subject: [ILUG-BOM] Open source GPL use by government
Check this post on Slashdot.
This PDF article, written by Kenneth Brown of ADTI, attempts to explain that "Open source GPL use by government agencies could easily become a nation security concern. Government use of software in the public domain is exceptionally risky."
http://www.adti.net/html_files/defense/old_opensource_whitepaper.pdf
-- Ashok
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--- Shankar Ramchandran shankar_ramchan@vsnl.net wrote:
Check this link in response to the ADTI report. http://online.securityfocus.com/news/473
[snip] luggerz..... itz good to lend some ear to the opposition time and again......after all, it remindz us of the tru moralz we stand for. As for ATDI.......how better can it get, especially when it comez frmr a M$ funded organisation.
Trevor Warren
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On Mon, 10 Jun 2002, Ashok Iyer wrote:
This PDF article, written by Kenneth Brown of ADTI, attempts to explain that "Open source GPL use by government agencies could easily become a nation security concern. Government use of software in the public domain is exceptionally risky."
The article says that GPLed software is risky, but BSD style and public domain software is perfectly fine.
In other words, open source software is perfectly safe, but requiring that anyone who makes changes and publishes binaries with those changes also make the changed source available, that is not safe.
Explain how this makes sense?
Hi, A reply to the mentioned white paper at the Roaring Penguin: http://www.roaringpenguin.com/adti2.php3 regards, Martin.
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