[NTLUG:Discuss] Washington Post article

Steve Baker sjbaker1 at airmail.net
Thu May 23 21:06:54 CDT 2002


Stephen Davidson wrote:
> 
> Seems the Pentagon can no longer purchase open source software.

I don't think that's even true.  I don't know where the article
gets it's information - but the company I work for sells plenty
of Linux systems to the military.  Admittedly they are embedded
systems inside Flight Simulators - but they are undoubtedly
not running Windoze!

> Oh wait, its free....

Tell that to RedHat & SuSE!
 

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