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Upside: Operation Linux

Thanks to Rajiv for
this link.

“As an officer in the U.S. Air Force, a subsidiary of US.gov,
Maj. Justin Seiferth knows that pushing any policy through the
molasses-thick military bureaucracy is always an exercise in
frustration. Nevertheless, when it came time to pick a research
project during a year-long training stint at the Air Command and
Staff College at Maxwell AFB in Alabama, Seiferth, a 37-year-old
programmer and part-time Apache hacker, decided to let his opinions
about open source software be known.”

“While “Open Source & These United States” might not
threaten to topple “Cathedral and the Bazaar” from the Linux
bestseller list,
it does lay out a clear, concise and
refreshingly jargon-free case for open source. Leavening Linux with
a few martial references to Clausewitz and Sun Tzu, Seiferth
makes sure to advise his readers on the significance of open source
culture in the eyes of the U.S. military.”

Complete
story
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