open source case studies

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Deliverator The National Security Agency has a mission. It is the nation's code keeper and code breaker. Ironically, it had a security problem: the ecosystem for software that was keeping top secret information secret was deeply broken.

Stephen Smalley at the NSA had a new approach. He knew that if he could solve the MLS problem with open source software, it would simultaneously reduce the cost of the software, open the field to new innovations, and make the technology available to the private sector. In one stroke.

So Smalley and his team did something unprecedented: they took their proof of concept and released it to the world as a project called SELinux. It was quickly determined that SELinux had no backdoors. Millions of Linux users now protect themselves from attack with SELinux. Without open source, the NSA would still be saddled with expensive and antiquated MLS systems.

http://www.opensourceforamerica.org/case-studies/nsa

аж слезу вышибает. там ещё про Navy есть:

...real-time systems frequently require specialized hardware and specialized software, which is expensive. It would be much easier to have the regular computers handling the real-time work. The solution was to bring the real-time capability to the open source Linux operating system. So the Navy... worked to provide a real-time version of Linux that was 100% compatible with the regular Linux.

Wall Street... has a similar requirement for real-time systems. Fortunately, they were able to take the same software the Navy developed, and apply it to their trading systems. The US Navy could never have anticipated that Wall Street would find its real-time work useful.

http://www.opensourceforamerica.org/case-studies/navy

Comments

[ivan-gandhi.livejournal.com]

Эти две мессаги хороши вместе.

- NSA насрало на свои кондовые "разработки" (врачи анкетные), и взяло то, что заведомо, доказуемо работает (линух, то есть);
- Стива Балмер пошел по Вашингтону с протянутой рукой.

(Если ты думаешь, что я не люблю Майкрософт, так нет, ничего; вон и стоки сегодня на 1.76% поднялись, тоже хорошо!)

[109.livejournal.com]

вы, профессор, таки не любите пролетариат микрософт :)