[Leaplist] Why OSS/FS? A Blog about reason.

["pberry2" at cfl.rr.com]

http://www.dwheeler.com/blog/

I am particularly interested in the US Air Force study, dating from 
1984, that found the only security from built-in back doors is to have 
available the entire source code for any OS. 

Always looking for new updates in my education about these subjects, so 
I appreciate any input.  Some of the references date to the 1999 through 
2001 studies, and statistics, and you might be surprised at how much 
OSS/FS has grown in the Enterprise in the past 6 to 8 years! 

OPINION:
Sales of new computers with Microsoft Vista installed are abyssmal, from 
first hand information I am receiving in stores. 
Dell might be on a fast track to offer OSS/FS installed on their units.  
Sales of desktops were flatlined from 1999 through to the release of 
Vista, when they seem to have taken a dive. 
Corporate Boardrooms are going to go into frantic mode, when they review 
this quarter of earnings!
DOT announcement that forbids testing installs of Vista on any of the 
remaining 15,000 desktops still running Microsoft, unless CIO permits 
them, also affects the 45,000 remaining Microsoft Windows operated 
desktops at the FAA.  All other computers run on some version of 
GNU/Linux.