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Yes it is better than NOT sharing! What would be more interesting is to require all private companies who are doing US government contracts, especially the one

Yes it is better than NOT sharing! What would be more interesting is to require all private companies who are doing US government contracts, especially the ones who are handling classified projects to do the same as these US agencies!!!

transpute 2y ago
Gov-acquired software can be architected to separate open-source components from classified components. This enables reuse of commercial (open or closed) software with the economics and rapid iteration of larger markets. For open-source components, this enables public collaboration on COTS, with non-public collaboration on classified GO(v)TS components.
- emptiestplace 2y ago
  Who is going to pay for this?
  - transpute 2y ago
    It's practical for software vendors on platforms [1] with virtualization, which have been gradually increasing over the past decade, including Windows, ChromeOS and Android. [1] https://www.intel.com/content/dam/doc/case-study/enterprise-security-core-i5-vpro-us-defense-intelligency-agency-improving-security-productivity-with-cots-pcs-study.pdf https://www.intel.com/content/dam/doc/case-study/enterprise-...
    - emptiestplace 2y ago
      I'm a little lost, but it seems like you aren't - how does virtualization help with the actual work of splitting codebases into reusable components?
      - transpute 2y ago
        It doesn't help with doing any splitting (e.g. 20 years ago) but in current era where software is architected as micro-services and packaged for containers and VMs, software is more likely to be "born as reusable component".
- RobotToaster 2y ago
  Pretty sure this is how BRL-CAD works, most of the software is open source, but there are a few classified extensions not released.
  - transpute 2y ago
    Thanks for the pointer, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BRL-CAD https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BRL-CAD > The BRL-CAD source code repository is the oldest known public version-controlled codebase in the world that's still under active development, dating back to 1983-12-16 00:10:31 UTC.
emptiestplace 2y ago
This is beautiful, do you think we might be going in such a direction?

transpute 2y ago

Gov-acquired software can be architected to separate open-source components from classified components. This enables reuse of commercial (open or closed) software with the economics and rapid iteration of larger markets. For open-source components, this enables public collaboration on COTS, with non-public collaboration on classified GO(v)TS components.

emptiestplace 2y ago
Who is going to pay for this?
- transpute 2y ago
  It's practical for software vendors on platforms [1] with virtualization, which have been gradually increasing over the past decade, including Windows, ChromeOS and Android. [1] https://www.intel.com/content/dam/doc/case-study/enterprise-security-core-i5-vpro-us-defense-intelligency-agency-improving-security-productivity-with-cots-pcs-study.pdf https://www.intel.com/content/dam/doc/case-study/enterprise-...
  - emptiestplace 2y ago
    I'm a little lost, but it seems like you aren't - how does virtualization help with the actual work of splitting codebases into reusable components?
    - transpute 2y ago
      It doesn't help with doing any splitting (e.g. 20 years ago) but in current era where software is architected as micro-services and packaged for containers and VMs, software is more likely to be "born as reusable component".
RobotToaster 2y ago
Pretty sure this is how BRL-CAD works, most of the software is open source, but there are a few classified extensions not released.
- transpute 2y ago
  Thanks for the pointer, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BRL-CAD https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BRL-CAD > The BRL-CAD source code repository is the oldest known public version-controlled codebase in the world that's still under active development, dating back to 1983-12-16 00:10:31 UTC.

emptiestplace 2y ago

This is beautiful, do you think we might be going in such a direction?