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SigInt10: Opensource policies for governments

May 24th, 2010 Frank Breedijk No comments

By Arjen Kamphuis (@ArjenKamphuis)GPL Logo

Arjen started off by explaining why he thinks that software is important. About as important as the first book press. The creation of synthetic life earlier this has reduced the problem of life to a software problem, a very complex software problem, but a software problem non-the-less.

One day, after Arjen noticed that the main Dutch railway website could only be used with Internet Explorer he decided to write the railway and several Dutch politician, he got requested to put in a proposal for a Dutch law pushing open source software as a government policy. Since the Dutch government does 12% of Dutch software spending, they should lead by example. This bill got passed, partly because the day before it got known that Microsoft had a nett. margin of 92% on Windows.

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Seccubus the new name for AutoNessus

November 19th, 2009 Frank Breedijk No comments

Since it became apparent that the next version of AutoNessus was going to outgrow the reference to Nessus, Tennable’s Network Security Scanner, due to the inclusion of other scanners such as OpenVAS, NMAP and Nikto, the author of the program, Frank Breedijk, decided to start a contest for a new name.

On the 19th of November Frank Breedijk announced that Jason Mansfield, who runs the website http:/clinicallyawasome.com, has won the contest by sending in the name Seccubus. A bottle of Vueve Clinquot champaing will be sent to him shortly.

The author has provided the following explanation of the name Seccubus:
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