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At 06:51 PM 11/1/2004, you wrote:<br>
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So the U.S. Govt has never used linux anywhere? Wow.<br>
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Not in most installations, and definitely not in DoD facilities.<br>
The "Office of Inspector General" has deemed open source to be
"Verboten".<br><br>
That's going to become an interesting situation when Solaris goes open
source...<br>
<font face="Times New Roman, Times"><a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1647198,00.asp" eudora="autourl">http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1647198,00.asp<br><br>
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</a><blockquote type=cite class=cite cite=""><b>Question:</b> Why isn't
there a commercial solution available in some cases?<br>
<b>Answer:</b> What company in their right mind would engineer a
competing product to a solution that costs $0.00
??</font><font face="Times New Roman, Times" color="#000080">?<br>
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Again making the mistake that open source equates
non-commercial.</font><font face="Times New Roman, Times"></font></blockquote><br>
Once again... The Office of Inspector General has deemed (any and
all) open-source to be forbidden.<br><br>
Whether it be commercial of non-commercial open-source software it's
forbidden.<br><br>
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