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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