[TriLUG] Fwd: Sign this Petition - Explain why taxpayers pay out billions to Microsoft and get nothing in return, while Linux is free!

[Brandon Van Every]

On Sun, Apr 28, 2013 at 9:01 AM, William Sutton <william at trilug.org> wrote:

>
> Next, the Federal government has standards for what can, or cannot, be
> used, and in what situations.  In some instances, those are security
> standards, based on what can (or cannot) be evaluated.  For all of
> Microsoft's security problems, they at least have a closed development
> product and an identifiable set of programmers, so they can certify their
> software to be free of any rogue logic with a certain degree of confidence.
>  Moreover, as a single organization, they can take ownership of their
> products.  Open Source in general, and Linux in specific, don't have those
> abilities, due to the by-definition ability of almost anyone to add some
> code somewhere which isn't sufficiently well vetted.
>
>
GovLinux came up as one of the 1st entries when I searched on these issues.
 http://www.govlinux.com/  Also that article I originally provided about
the history of open source in the Federal gov't., mostly provided DoD
examples in the earlier days.  So, I don't believe this generally.  There's
nothing identifiable about legions of M$ H1B contractors from India, who
pretty much swarm their campus in Redmond.  If you think they're exercising
that much control regarding possible corporate espionage, I've got a bridge
to sell you.


Cheers,
Brandon