U.S. Department of Defence Open Source Conference

Submitted by igrbrown on Tue, 19/09/2006 - 11:58am.

Agenda and other details at: http://www.afei.org/brochure/6a04/index.cfm

Appears the evangelists may be doing it tough persuading the military of the benefits of open source. Nick Farrell writing in The Inquirer observes: "[Open source]software is made,..completely different[ly] from how big military projects are executed. The military likes its software to be made like IBM ma[ke] it, a nice factory operation that appears on time."

More: http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=34442

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