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| DATE | 2003-05-01 |
| FROM | Ruben I Safir
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| SUBJECT | Subject: [hangout] Re: What's with this Stanco guy?
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Wasn't it nice of him to make it public before the hearing to the
NYC community.
The guys a self-serving ass.
Ruben
On 2003.05.01 16:05 Dave Williams wrote:
> Apparently Tony Stanco spoke to NY City Council the other day on Open
> Source Procurement policies. The full text of his presentation is here
> on Newsforge:
>
> http://newsforge.com/newsforge/03/04/30/1926238.shtml?tid=19
>
> The subject is being tossed around Slashdot with the usual
> signal-to-noise ration -- mostly centering around the word "mandatory":
>
> http://slashdot.org/articles/03/05/01/1148227.shtml?tid=103&tid=99
>
> I didn't even know this was being discussed -- how did he get invited?
> Ironically he mentions the problem of marketing Open Source when
> proprietary competitors will do anything to prevent its consideration.
> That wasn't a big issue at his conference, but I guess things change.
>
> On top of all that he somehow pumped up the staff of his CSPRI group.
> What does this guy do that gets off the OSS people so much?
>
>
> Here's his Press Release:
>
>
> FOR IMMEDIATE PRESS RELEASE CONTACT: Tony Stanco
> April 28, 2003 (202) 994-5513; stanco-at-gwu.edu
> MEDIA CONTACT: Matt Lindsay
> (202) 994-1423; mlindsay-at-gwu.edu
>
> Open Source Experts Join GW's Cyber Security Policy and Research Institute
>
> Institute a Leader in Policy Issues and Research on Secure Open Source Software
>
> WASHINGTON - The George Washington University is pleased to announce that
> Brian Behlendorf, Miguel de Icaza, Hans Reiser, Jay Beale, Jeffery "hemos"
> Bates, Russell Coker and Brian May, all world-renowned leaders in the Open
> Source movement, have joined its Cyber Security Policy and Research
> Institute(CSPRI). They join Bruce Perens, Rishab Ghosh, Martin Dean,
> AdamTuroff, John Viega and Tony Stanco, who are already part of theOpen
> Source team at CSPRI.
>
> "I am quite interested in seeing the public sector adopt Open Source
> technologies, but even more interested in helping the public sector
> understand that it can work with the Open Source community to promote open
> standards, open systems and open government," said Brian Behlendorf,
> founder of APACHE, a decentralized community of developers working on Open
> Source software projects. "Governments the world over, from China to
> Germany to Brazil to Canada, are moving aggressively in this direction. I
> am honored to be asked to serve in an advisory role on these issues at
> CSPRI."
>
> "I am very excited to become involved with the CSPRI team, as it will help
> us promote the use of free software in the government and in the branches
> of the government that reach the people," said Miguel de Icaza, founder of
> GNOME, a type of Open Source software that provides free and easy-to-use
> desktop environment for the user, as well as a powerful application
> framework for the software developer.
>
> "I'm interested in pursuing research and support around understanding how
> Open Source software is designed and developed, and the social network that
> is involved in making some of the best software in the world happen," said
> Jeffery "hemos" Bates, founder of Slashdot, a Web site billing itself as
> "News for Nerds. Stuff that Matters." "Additionally, I'm also passionate
> about adoption and usage of Open Source software in the governmental,
> educational and commercial realms, for both technological and social
> reasons. CSPRI is working in all these areas and I'm very happy to join
> forces with them."
>
> "Open Source brings the greatest potential for operating system security,
> by allowing users the utmost flexibility to configure and add security
> mechanisms," said Jay Beale, original author of Bastille-Linux, an Open
> Source development to "tighten" Unix operating systems. "The most timely
> examples are the Center for Internet Security's security configuration
> standards guides and the NSA's extreme security-model for Linux, called
> SELinux, which CSPRI is working on."
>
> "We are at a key turning point for the filesystems field. The semantics of
> the Unix and Linux filesystems have remained essentially unchanged since
> the 1960s," said Hans Reiser, author of ReiserFS, an Open Source
> filesystem. "Microsoft is focusing its OS development efforts on a
> dramatic bid to take the filesystem from the hierarchical semantics of the
> 60s to the relational semantics of the 70s (SQL). We will take Linux into
> the new millennium by adding support for semi-structured data querying and
> modeling. We have started by creating an infrastructure for supporting
> military grade security. We have already rewritten the infrastructure
> supporting the old hierarchical semantics so that they can be upgraded
> without being discarded. Now, with the assistance of CSPRI, we will be
> able to start working on these exciting new semantics."
>
> Other new members of the CSPRI team are Russell Coker, a Debian developer
> doing major work with SELinux, and Brian May, who maintains the
> Heimdal/Kerberos package in Debian.
>
> CSPRI, established in 1993 at GW's School of Engineering and Applied
> Science (SEAS), is one of the Open Source movement's premier venues for
> policy discussions, and research and development. The institute regularly
> brings together representatives from local, national and international
> organizations in both the private and public sectors to address the impact
> of Open Source on governments around the world by hosting Open Source in
> Government conferences. It is also involved in Open Source government
> policy formation, the National Security Agency's Security Enhanced Linux
> (SELinux) and the NIAP certification of Linux.
>
> For information about CSPRI, visit www.cpi.seas.gwu.edu.
> For more information about SEAS, visit www.seas.gwu.edu.
> For more news about GW, visit the GW News Center at www.gwnewscenter.org.
>
> - GW -
>
>
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