news.cnet.com — The dam holding back U.S. federal adoption of open source just burst with the introduction of the Defense Department's Forge.mil.Forge.mil is an open-source project repository built in the image of SourceForge.net, Federal Computer Week reported Friday.
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narsheFeb 1, 2009
I believe CodePlex has been around for a while... <a class="user" href="http://www.codeplex.com/">http://www.codeplex.com/</a>From the site: "CodePlex is Microsoft's open source project hosting web site."
chevrileyFeb 2, 2009
i hate people who whinge about 'redundant' words after acronyms. its only redundant if you knew what the acronym meant. otherwise its descriptive. i now know that a CaC is a card - thank you extra word!
sageerrantFeb 2, 2009
Hey, they've gotta relax somehow...
lingnoiFeb 5, 2009
So how is that any different then Microsoft giving windows source code to the chinese government or the source code being available internally within the company?This isn't open source and just because they're giving the source to contractors internally, also doesn't mean it's open source.
thesabreFeb 5, 2009
Because the DoD consists of many, many internal organizations. Everyone from DARPA, DIA, Navy/Marines, Air Force, Army, Coast Guard, etc. are under DoD. If DARPA develops something and a contractor from the Navy has access to the source and DIA can add intelligence gathering functionality to it later, that IS open source. It's not the same as one company like Microsoft making their source internal to their employees.