Is the Military going Open-Source?

ZDNet is reporting that the military is pushing a new open-source initiative to run intra-departmental computer systems. Sounds very interesting.

“The committee is concerned by the rising costs and decreasing security associated with software development for information technology systems. These rising costs are linked to the increasing complexity of software, which has also resulted in increasing numbers of system vulnerabilities that might be exploited by malicious hackers and potential adversaries. The committee encourages the department to rely more broadly on [open-source software] and establish it as a standard for intra-department software development.”

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