Anti-FUD from Open Source Industry Australia

Open Source Industry Australia has sent out a couple of press releases relevant to current attacks on free software. This one warns against the risks of using proprietary software in defense applications: "Whilst there have been numerous attempts at inserting trojan code into both closed and open source products, all such attempts on open source program have been discovered and reversed, prior to the code becoming widely deployed and therefore a security risk to business, government and security agency users.."

Then, there is this warning about relying on vendor "roadmaps." "Very often the actual path followed by the vendor marketing the 'vision' bears little real resemblance to the eventual technology users will be asked to run a few years later."

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