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[Against a Dark Background] The Open-Source War - New York Times

October 17th, 2005
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The Open-Source War - New York Times:

The Open-Source War

By JOHN ROBB
Published: October 15, 2005

IN September, the Defense Department floated a solicitation for a company to build a “system of metrics to accurately assess U.S. progress in the war on terrorism” and make suggestions on how to improve the effort. As a software executive and former Air Force counterterrorist operative, I began thinking: how would I build this system and what would I recommend?

My first task would be to gauge our progress in Iraq. It is now, for better or worse, the epicenter of the war on terrorism. By most measurements, the war is going badly

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