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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE : "Clarifying Guidance Regarding OSS"

Story: It's Time for Obama to Come Out for FOSSTotal Replies: 1
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henke54

Oct 28, 2009
6:21 AM EDT
Quoting:OCT 16 2009 SUBJECT: Clarifying Guidance Regarding Open Source Software (OSS) References: See Attachment I To effectively achieve its missions, the Department of Defense must develop and update its software-based capabilities faster than ever, to anticipate new threats and respond to continuously changing requirements. The use of Open Source Software (OSS) can provide advantages in this regard. This memorandum provides clarifying guidance on the use of OSS and supersedes the previous DoD CIO memorandum dated May 28,2003 (reference (a)). Open Source Software is software for which the human-readable source code is available for use, study, reuse, modification, enhancement, and redistribution by the users of that software. In other words, OSS is software for which the source code is "open."
http://powdermonkey.blogs.com/files/2009oss.pdf
Bob_Robertson

Oct 29, 2009
7:03 PM EDT 		Having worked in a government agency, I can say that the requirement for "auditing" fits the use of F/OSS perfectly.

Closed-source software in fact seems quite impossible to use in conjunction with the "audit" requirements.

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