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<p class=MsoNormal><span class=EmailStyle22><font size=3 color="#993300"
face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Every government department for which
I worked also used Windows – how many security holes in that have been fixed in
just this year, let alone the last several?<span style="mso-spacerun:
yes"> </span>So much for proprietary products being secure…<o:p></o:p></span></font></span></p>
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face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><![if !supportEmptyParas]> <![endif]><o:p></o:p></span></font></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span class=EmailStyle22><font size=3 color="#993300"
face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Many of the projects on which I
worked also used open source products – including for a large department that
is involved every time you travel by air.<o:p></o:p></span></font></span></p>
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face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><![if !supportEmptyParas]> <![endif]><o:p></o:p></span></font></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span class=EmailStyle22><font size=3 color="#993300"
face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>On that same project, I was responsible
for QA – but it was not my only job.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>The agency had 18 people on their QA staff (don't ask me why) and every
one of those people felt that they HAD to find something to write up.<span
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>After a half dozen iterations, the company
I worked for (a very large services organization) had to tell their management to
stop that nonsense.<o:p></o:p></span></font></span></p>
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face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><![if !supportEmptyParas]> <![endif]><o:p></o:p></span></font></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span class=EmailStyle22><font size=3 color="#993300"
face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>The agency's management can get
around virtually any policy if they want.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>However, I never found an agency that cared about the taxpayer's money –
even though they are also taxpayers.<o:p></o:p></span></font></span></p>
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face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><![if !supportEmptyParas]> <![endif]><o:p></o:p></span></font></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span class=EmailStyle22><font size=3 color="#993300"
face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>I would encourage you to visit with
NIST.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>My guess is that there is a
simple misunderstanding, quite possibly arising from not having to pay for open
source products (they can, however, make a donation if they really want to
spend money).<o:p></o:p></span></font></span></p>
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face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><![if !supportEmptyParas]> <![endif]><o:p></o:p></span></font></span></p>
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style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>AUTOTEXTLIST \s "E-mail
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color=fuchsia face="Comic Sans MS"><span style='font-family:"Comic Sans MS";
color:fuchsia'>Nancy E. Wichmann, PMP</span></font><!--[if supportFields]><font
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