[SATLUG] [Fwd: San Antonio Open Source Research]

[Justizin]

On 11/30/06, tweeks <tweeksjunk2 at theweeks.org> wrote:
> On Wednesday 29 November 2006 06:05, Travis H. wrote:
> > On Tue, Nov 21, 2006 at 09:49:24AM -0600, Justizin wrote:
> > >  * The US Military, esp the USAF, relies heavily on F/OSS, although
> > > as far as I know Windows is still the "official" OS, and it is a
> > > policy violation to install GNU/Linux, or was at one time.  Some other
> > > folks on the list can talk to you about this in more detail.
> >
> > A birdie told me FreeBSD and Linux are okay now.
>
> Heck... they've been using Linux and BSD flavors on SIPERnet since at LEAST
> Red Hat 5.2 in 1998...  The DoD is all about rules and restrictions.. that is
> until it's inconvenient.  Then they just make exceptions.. ;)
>

Yeap, I recall having a great deal of respect in the 90s for people
who work for the USAF and defiantly installed linux + samba because it
was easier, cheaper, faster, and more stable.

As a high school student, that struck me as amazingly brave.

>
>
> > >  * Lightwave, a proprietary software company, as I understand it,
> > > relies on Free / Open-Source software for much of their business.
> >
> > That's also the name of a product by a company called Newtek, who
> > may use FOSS.
>
> Their IT back office is composed of several LAMP systems.
> In fact they were just hiring for a PHP dev slot IIRC.
>

Yep, I was alluding to that.

>
> > An unofficial source told me that some NSA folks work full-time on
> > the MS campus.  I can't confirm that, and if I knew for sure I might
> > not even be able to repeat the rumor.  However, I think NSA would be
> > an improvement over MS employees.
>
> Well, they're here in SA now.. and probably lurking this list.  So just ask
> them! hehe Xv>
>

Really?  Microsoft and the NSA in SA, eh?  Yee Haw.

>
> > information and reselling it.  MS is a convicted monopolist, and
> > perjured themselves with impunity during the DoJ case, even doctoring
> > their videos, and getting caught, and apparently the government thinks
> > that's okay if you are a Fortune 1 company...
>
> "It's not in the band.. it's in the box!
> <whack>
>         <thud>
>                 <thud>
>         <thud>"
>

Haven't you seen any new movies? ;)

-- 
Justizin, Independent Interactivity Architect
ACM SIGGRAPH SysMgr, Reporter
http://www.siggraph.org/