From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.4 required=5.0 tests=AC_FROM_MANY_DOTS,BAYES_00 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,345c9fcf5a67a99f X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-05-24 01:26:58 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed1.cidera.com!Cidera!news-x2.support.nl!psinet-eu-nl!psiuk-p4!uknet!psiuk-p3!uknet!psiuk-n!news.pace.co.uk!nh.pace.co.uk!not-for-mail From: "Marin David Condic" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Microsoft takes on ACT Date: Thu, 23 May 2002 12:09:57 -0400 Organization: Posted on a server owned by Pace Micro Technology plc Message-ID: References: <4519e058.0205230724.38617c60@posting.google.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: dhcp-200-133.miami.pace.co.uk X-Trace: nh.pace.co.uk 1022170199 1326 136.170.200.133 (23 May 2002 16:09:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: newsmaster@news.cam.pace.co.uk NNTP-Posting-Date: 23 May 2002 16:09:59 GMT X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:24630 Date: 2002-05-23T16:09:59+00:00 List-Id: I like how they cite that it is more secure and less expensive. (Obviously - if there are a million eyes scanning over the code, its a lot harder to sneak in a back door. Do you trust Micro$oft not to do that? :-) In a sense, the DoD has been in the "Open Source" business from early on. I couldn't tell you how many projects it would cover, but I know that *some* (at least one, possibly all) projects had the DoD retaining all data rights to the software developed for a given project. Hence, so long as it was not classified, one could file a Freedom of Information Act on it and get the source. It was something often done by competitors in the DoD contracting game. (Don't know how widespread that was though...) MDC -- Marin David Condic Senior Software Engineer Pace Micro Technology Americas www.pacemicro.com Enabling the digital revolution e-Mail: marin.condic@pacemicro.com "Ted Dennison" wrote in message news:4519e058.0205230724.38617c60@posting.google.com... > I'm curious what, if any, response ACT has to Microsoft's recent > efforts to convince the DoD to ban Free Software. (see > http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A60050-2002May22.html ). > Seeing as ACT's supported products would qualify, this would seem to > be a direct attack on their business (or at least some of it, I have > no clue what % of ACT customers are DoD and contractors, but I > understand its >0). > > This is fairly big news, and I'm interested in what the ACT folks > around here think of it, given that they seem to be on the "bad end" > of Microsoft's guns on this one.