Open source makes serious headway in the U.S. Department of Defense
As I listened to David Mihelcic, CTO with the U.S. Defense Information Systems Agency talk about the benefits of open source on Federal News Radio’s presentation of “Open Source Solutions - 2 Years In Review,” I couldn’t help but be impressed with just how far open source has come in the past decade. When I first got involved with open source back in 1998, it was perceived as risky (Rampant fear of the GPL and other open-source licenses), not secure (How can community development take care to lock out the bad guys?), and niche. In 2008, however, the CTO of a powerful agency within the U.S. Department of Defense boldly declares open source’s superiority as a development model.
December 22, 2008, 12:26pm
