Defense Information Systems Agency's Wi-Fi Flying Squirrel
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| The software, this source said, owes a lot to open source Wi-Fi sniffing
| tools such as NetStumbler or Kismet, but has a somewhat snazzier interface
| and the all important U.S. Strategic Command steering group?s stamp of
| approval.
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http://blogs.govexec.com/techinsider/archives/2007/05/disas_wifi_flying_squirrel.html
As mentioned in Groklaw, Microsoft would never sue because even the Pentagon
uses GNU/Linux.
Related:
Too late to discredit open source, advocates say
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| "It's too late," exclaimed Winston Damarillo, founder and
| chairman of software development firm Exist Global, in an
| interview with Computerworld Philippines. "Open source
| is all over the place."
|
| [...]
|
| Anson Uy, president of Touch Solutions (a Red Hat Linux company),
| earlier on broke the news to Computerworld Philippines about the
| alleged "funded missions" by some software firms to discredit open
| source, although he did not identify any company.
|
| Anson revealed among the top three actions against FOSS are being
| done through "sponsored studies, piracy of open source developers,
| and bold press releases."
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http://www.linuxworld.com/news/2007/030607-too-late-to-discredit-open.html?fsrc=rss-linux-news
http://tinyurl.com/2bj969
DOD Awards Contracts Worth Up to $700M
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| Palo Alto, Calif.-based printer and personal computer
| maker HP was awarded two separate deals worth up to
| $440 million over eight years that cover the HP-UX,
| Microsoft Windows, Red Hat Enterprise Linux and
| Novell SUSE Linux operating systems.
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http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/061018/disa_contracts.html?.v=2
Defense kicks off open-source encryption program
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| "Interests within the DOD were pleased with the results of the
| initial OpenSSL validation program and have identified extensions
| to that work for greater availability of FIPS 140-2 validated
| open- source software for use within DOD IT systems," Weathersby said.
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http://www.gcn.com/online/vol1_no1/43425-1.html
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| "After a long and arduous journey that included a suspended validation last
| year .. OpenSSL has regained its FIPS 140-2 validation"
|
| "We called it the FUD campaign," he says. "There were all kinds of
| complaints sent to the CMVP including one about 'Commie code.' .. Silly or
| no, each complaint that's filed really slows down the process."
|
| "the ones they did see often contained redacted, or blacked-out, data about
| who had filed the complaint .. in some cases, proprietary software vendors
| were lodging the complaints.
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http://www.linux.com/article.pl?sid=07/02/08/1935232
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