[ghoward]

I addressed these arguments. I think that if you don't have access to the source, it's a security problem.

That includes not having access to the source because of security clearances. As far as I am concerned, your superiors in the DOE are adversaries to you and your machine.

Other people will have different viewpoints on that, and that's fine.

[gnufx]

I want free software, and I'm aghast at what some people run, but this is not the real world. How many examples do you want? If you talk security, what's the threat model? What I run on a decently managed (with the aid of dynamically linked libraries) compute cluster should only put my data at risk.

As I understood it, there actually has been a push for free software solutions on CORAL systems, but I don't remember where that came from.