Military Enlists Open Source Community 131
jmwci1 writes "The US Defense Department is enlisting an open source approach to software development — an about-face for such a historically top-down organization. In recent weeks, the military has launched a collaborative platform called Forge.mil for its developers to share software, systems components and network services. The agency also signed an agreement with the Open Source Software Institute to allow 50 internally developed workforce management applications to be licensed to other government agencies, universities and companies."
What wants to kill for cash? (Score:1, Funny)
I Dunno (Score:5, Funny)
This could end badly. Here's all these geeks working hard at coding, only to be interrupted by one of their own doing a mock-Python "Stop the skit! This is much too silly." and then everyone doing the "military fairy" song.
The Pentagon may not survive.
How dare they? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Why does this story have a red header? (Score:5, Funny)
It WAS that is.
Until you de-redified it.
Bug #222896: App terminates with big explosion (Score:4, Funny)
Bogus: This issue was fixed in SVN 2 months ago.
Re:How dare they? (Score:5, Funny)
What does mil-spec code look like? Do you have to put //SIR! after every semicolon?
i knew it (Score:3, Funny)