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Re: [News] America Explains Why Non-US Countries Should Use Open Source Programs (and Avoid Microsoft)

  • Subject: Re: [News] America Explains Why Non-US Countries Should Use Open Source Programs (and Avoid Microsoft)
  • From: Mark Kent <mark.kent@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 7 Dec 2006 17:13:11 +0000
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • References: <4667062.V5Mtb1eCRp@schestowitz.com> <4tqqdaF14sn57U1@mid.individual.net>
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  • Xref: ellandroad.demon.co.uk comp.os.linux.advocacy:466113
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B Gruff <bbgruff@xxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
> On Thursday 07 December 2006 15:13 Roy Schestowitz wrote:
> 
>> DOD Report to Detail Dangers of Foreign Software
>> 
>> ,----[ Quote ]
>> | Task force says U.S. adversaries may sabotage code developed overseas
>> `----
>> 
>>
> http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=274599
>> 
>> It's funny that they have just justified the use of Linux overseas. It's
>> open for review and it is not developed and compiled by a foreign country.
>> 
>> It is not a surprise that foreign countries keep complaining that Windows
>> has back doors.
> 
> It's quite amusing to read really, isn't it?
> There is just no concept (it would seem) in the U.S. that "overseas" or
> "foreign" include the U.S. as far as any country *other* than the U.S. is
> concerned!
> 
> As you say, unless you want to write everything yourself and control it very
> tightly, there is only one sure way to do it........

The US is foreign to almost everyone on the planet.  Hey, they're not
even commonwealth!

-- 
| Mark Kent   --   mark at ellandroad dot demon dot co dot uk  |
I've always considered statesmen to be more expendable than soldiers.

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