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[ PRIVACY Forum ] NSA Mimics Google, Upsets Senate
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NSA Mimics Google, Upsets Senate
http://j.mp/NzPkBv (Wired)
"The NSA, you see, is just one of many organizations that have open
sourced code that seeks to mimic the Google infrastructure. Like other
commercial outfits, the agency not only wants to share the database
with other government organizations and companies, it aimed to improve
the platform by encouraging other developers to contribute code. But
when the government's involved, there's often a twist. The U.S.
government has a long history with open source software, but there are
times when policy and politics bump up against efforts to freely share
software code - just as they do in the corporate world. In recent
years, the most famous example is NASA's Nebula project, which
overcame myriad bureaucratic hurdles before busting out of the space
agency in a big way, seeding the popular OpenStack platform."
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