Is the US Army really about to ban Linux?
September 21st, 2007According to a German News Site, an US-Army Engineer who wants to stay anonymous revealed that the Geotechnical and Structures Lab in Vicksburg, Mississippi, is working on a change of the Army’s IT Infrastructure Policy which will include a change of the Operating Systems to Windows XP, thereby banning Linux from the Workstations.
“They will probably forbid Linux, [..] and many of the engineers will search for a better job.”,
that’s how the engineer is quoted by several American media agencies.
Occasionally, Lockheed Martin, one of the army’s largest technology suppliers, stated they did not make any restriction on the operating systems their customers may use, so this time it is probably not the arms lobby, it’s Microsoft! 
So:
Is the US Army really about to ban Linux from their Computers and force their employees to use Windows XP? What would be the consequences?
In my opinion, this will hurt the army very badly, but anyways I’m eager to hear your opinion! 
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