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Behind Linux's Struggle in Gov't (Wired)

[Posted June 13, 2002 by cook]

Wired looks at some issues behind the slow adoption of Linux in the U.S. government. "It's free, it's becoming more secure, and it's even the dirty little secret among some computer geeks who work in the U.S. government. Then why isn't linux more prevalent? One word: Microsoft. Another: Oracle."

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Posted Jun 13, 2002 20:25 UTC (Thu) by nicku (subscriber, #777) [Link]

An interesting article. One little thing:

"Free software is a subset of open-source software, and generally means that the software is available to use at no cost," [...]

it's "Free as in Freedom".

Behind Linux's Struggle in Gov't (Wired)

Posted Jun 14, 2002 7:57 UTC (Fri) by einstein (subscriber, #2052) [Link]

Oracle as a reason not to use linux?

Hello? Oracle runs just fine on linux...