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12.07.09

I Want GNU Systems…

Posted in FUD, Free/Libre Software, GNU/Linux at 6:58 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz

Summary: Short response to a lot of recent FUD about the viability of Free software in demanding systems

Uncle Sam wants GNU

“The continuous and broad peer-review enabled by publicly available source code supports software reliability and security efforts through the identification and elimination of defects that might otherwise go unrecognized by a more limited core development team.”

–CIO David Wennergren, Department of Defense (October 2009)

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