[Asterisk-Users] Linux and Windows

[Steve Underwood]

Its hard to get to the bottom of this. I've seen things on the internet 
saying open source in all forms is banned. I've also seem lots of things 
about deployments in the US government in general and the DoD in 
particular. I guess like most things the left hand never knows what the 
right hand is doing.

I think the main thing holding back government adoption of free things 
in most markets is the rather small size of a 5% back-hander on a free 
solution.

Steve


Karl J. Vesterling wrote:

> At 06:51 PM 11/1/2004, you wrote:
> [snip for brevity[
>
>>  
>> So the U.S. Govt has never used linux anywhere? Wow.
>
>
> Not in most installations, and definitely not in DoD facilities.
> The "Office of Inspector General" has deemed open source to be "Verboten".
>
> That's going to become an interesting situation when Solaris goes open 
> source...
> http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1647198,00.asp
>
>
>> *Question:* Why isn't there a commercial solution available in some 
>> cases?
>> *Answer:* What company in their right mind would engineer a competing 
>> product to a solution that costs $0.00 ???
>>  
>> Again making the mistake that open source equates non-commercial.
>
>
> Once again...  The Office of Inspector General has deemed (any and 
> all) open-source to be forbidden.
>
> Whether it be commercial of non-commercial open-source software it's 
> forbidden.