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Re:Amazon asks court to halt Microsoft's work on Pentagon 'w... by jandrese on Thursday January 23, 2020 @11:50AM (#22129109)
Almost every government lab I've seen has a rule that says you aren't allowed to use free software in the lab. Everything was supposed to have a vendor that was responsible for it that you were paying.

Development labs end up using Linux and other open source software all over the place, but it gets a bit more iffy when you're going into production.

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Re:Amazon asks court to halt Microsoft's work on Pentagon 'w... by tpetry on Thursday January 23, 2020 @01:12PM (#22130034)
And that is the reason Red Hat is making so much money: Whether it is free or not is not relevant but that you can pay a vendor who will fix your problems in production
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Re:Amazon asks court to halt Microsoft's work on Pentagon 'w... by arwineap on Thursday January 23, 2020 @12:00PM (#22129213)
That's interesting...

We had to verify everything was approved through DADSM (potentially navy specific), but other than that as long as we had a legal license to run we were good.

This is what forced me into using centos for our deployed infrastructure, and mIRC as our chat client of choice.

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