Re: [Portugal] Relatório do DoD sobre utilização de SW Open Source

[carlos sousa]

Excelente ditado, mas é pena neste país de bananas à beira mar
plantado, a mandar num colectivo de elementos tipo exército em que
ninguém se pode manifestar porque simplesmente é assim que funciona
...


2011/5/26 Nuno Pedrosa <nuno.f.pedrosa  gmail.com>:
> Referência vista aqui:
> http://www.eejournal.com/archives/fresh-bytes/us-dod-gives-thumbs-up-to-open-source/
> Documento aqui:
> http://www.oss-institute.org/OTD2011/OTD-lessons-learned-military-FinalV1.pdf
> Uma citação:
>>
>> "Imagine if only the manufacturer of a rifle were allowed to clean, fix,
>> modify or upgrade that rifle. The
>> military often finds itself in this position with taxpayer funded,
>> contractor developed software: one
>> contractor with a monopoly on the knowledge of a military software system
>> and control of the software
>> source code. This is optimal only for the monopoly contractor, but creates
>> inefficiencies and
>> ineffectiveness for the government, reduction of opportunities for the
>> industrial base, severely limits
>> competition for new software upgrades, depletes resources that can be used
>> to better effect and wastes
>> taxpayer-provided funds."
>
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