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Re: [LUG] US Air Force moves to Linux

 

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On 13/01/12 16:51, Simon Waters wrote:

> My experience is that the strict procedures over spending money in such
> organisations is a big incentive to use suitably qualified gratis
> solutions. Whilst the requirements on security sensitive stuff to be
> tested, or shown to correctly use encryption protocols, prevents wider
> deployment of (probably) perfectly good free software solutions because
> they often don't have large organisations behind them paying for testing
> and certification.

The real irony here being that if good encryption software is needed
then Open Source is a far better option than proprietary.
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