US Government Supports Openness

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Aron Schatz
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July 11, 2006
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While the other part of the government debates what I'm allowed to do with my own earned money, another part is supporting sain technology trends. Having open standards is important for interoperability and future use.

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So states a report from the Department of Defense's Advanced Systems and Concepts Office, which recommends that the DoD move to a roadmap to adopt open source and open standards, maintaining that such a move is not only in the US national interest, but in the interests of US national security. The 79-page report proposes that the DoD adopt what it calls "open technology development," which incorporates open source methodologies and open standards, but also takes into account the fact that the DoD has systems that it would rather keep secret.

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