Snort: IDS Done Well (and Good)
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| There are many reasons why open source software is finding a home in
| this country's most security-conscious departments of government.
| Payton is inspired by an oft-quoted truism in the open source
| community known as Linus' Law: "Given enough eyeballs, all bugs
| are shallow." This truism has been proven to the satisfaction of
| decision makers at DARPA, GSA, NIST, NSA as well as the Armed Forces,
| all of whom are implementing open source solutions for their
| software needs--Snort among them.
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http://www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/reports/6399/1/
Another good explanation:
Conversations: On-Demand Collaboration
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| The open-source community kind of stumbled upon this model of
| collaboration. They had some challenges in common with all software
| development (like rapid production of quality code), some challenges
| that were new to us all a decade ago (like the ubiquitous Internet),
| and some challenges that remain unique to the open-source situation
| (like the casual join-and-disappear contributor). They worked out,
| sometimes consciously and sometimes by accident, a collection of
| solutions to these problems. Some are contained in the tools, some
| in the process, and some in the culture. In the end, the open-source
| community has managed to accomplish some truly amazing things,
| occasionally even things that the enterprise community has
| tried and failed.
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http://www.ddj.com/dept/architect/200002033
Related and recent:
Navy CIO 'recognizes the importance of OSS to the warfighter'
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| John Weathersby, executive director of the Open Source Software
| Institute, told Linux.com today that, effective immediately, the
| Department of the Navy has adopted a new policy which requires that
| open source software must be considered in every software
| acquisition the Navy makes.
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http://www.linux.com/article.pl?sid=07/06/06/0135204
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