Fwd: Re: Open-Source/Russ

[Rex Brooks <rexb@starbourne.com>]

To all whom share an interest in promoting Linux especially in conjunction 
with Python, please note.


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>Russ, I have a personal interest in Linux but I'm not sure I can afford to
>spend much time on it with respect to my professional responsibilities.
>Several years ago I tried to purchase locally a PC pre-loaded with Linux
>and the Corel Suite but was unable to find anyone who would sell such a
>machine to me.  In retrospect, that is a good thing in light of the failure
>of Corel's effort to capitalize on the Linux market.  My professional
>interest in Linux relates to NSA's work on SELinux in relation to the need
>for more secure DoD Std. 5015.2-certified ERMSs.  See
>http://www.nsa.gov/selinux/index.cfm & http://jitc.fhu.disa.mil/recmgt/
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>To me, the need/potential to marry the two initiatives is obvious.  Thus
>far, I have been unable to turn up any evidence that my urgings to vendors
>and to DoD and NSA have generated any results in that regard.  However,
>once the ET.gov site/process is operational, perhaps someone may wish to
>propose an ET component(s) around that potential, in which case I would
>seriously consider subscribing to the CoP.  See
>http://xml.gov/agenda/ETProjectMeeting20040818.htm &
>http://xml.gov/cop.asp#et
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>In the meantime, to the degree that folks like Sun may already have open
>source components that .gov folks may wish to use, I encourage them to work
>with their .gov customers to make them available in https://www.core.gov/
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>Needless to say, if anyone has an XML-enabled CMS application running on
>Linux, I'd like to see them demonstrate it at our XML authoring/editing and
>CMS tool forum on September 21.  See http://xml.gov/index.asp#new
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>Owen
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>Dear
>Owen
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>I hope all is well. Mr. Brooks and I have been covering open-source for
>quite sometime, and listed below is our latest article on this topic, which
>was published by Thomson Media this afternoon.
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>http://www.datawarehouse.com/article/?articleId=4748
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>We also have material regarding Linux at the desktop and server, which may
>be of value to your fine efforts. Please let me know if you would like the
>URLs.
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>Sincerely
>Russ