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

[Bruce Dubbs]

tweeks wrote:

> 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.. ;)

That's SIPRNet -- Secret IP Routed Network.

Actually, DoD has policy to allow FOSS when approved by the certifying
authority.  I should know.  I was on the DoD committee in 1999 to update
(IIRC) DoD 5200.1.  I added the appropriate paragraph...

  -- Bruce