Re: [PLUG] Lower the national debt by expanding the government's use of Free Software

[LeRoy <ldc@lrcressy.com>]

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On 02/05/2012 12:15 PM, K.S. Bhaskar wrote:
> I thought for a bit before posting this, since it is political /
> public policy rather than technical.  But eventually I decided to,
> since it is about FOSS which this group is about.  http://wh.gov/kCq
> is (a shortcut to) a petition at whitehouse.gov to encourage the
> Federal Government to use more free / open source software.
> 
> Regards
> -- Bhaskar
> 
I seem to remember a while back like many years ago the NSA created SE
Linux and even offered it to other agencies of the government,
volunteering to setup and maintain the the selinux systems for them.
The government agencies wanted nothing to do with the NSA's version of
Linux.  They were happy to have their systems cracked and broken by all
of the nefarious crackers.

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