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Novel? Not really....

Novel? Not really....

Posted Mar 3, 2010 11:48 UTC (Wed) by mmutz (guest, #5642)
Parent article: Trustedbird: Additional email security for Thunderbird

The fact that the French military is working with the Thunderbird project to get its code upstream is also rather novel for government-sponsored projects.

Having taken part in multiple German-government-sponsored FLOSS projects (Ägypten 1, 2, Gpg4win, Kolab), I don't really see the novelty of this. All the above projects have contributed 100% of changes back to upstream, and I'm sure that they're not the only ones. SELinux comes to mind, too.


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