What I mean by that is that I think that Microsoft may have shot-off their foot here, but we'll have to see how things will look after the dust settles.

The Mitre report was a little bit underplayed in the article. Take a look at [link|http://www.mitre.org/|www.mitre.org], and browse some of the management and trustee bios on their site. These are stodgy establishment people.

But worse than that, Microsoft is drawing attention to the problem areas in their stuff that cannot stand even cursory scrutiny:

1. Security through obscurity (as described in your post)

2. Cost

3. IP and the fruits of government-funded research

4. Capabilities

Should an anti-OSS stance emerge from the highest levels of the DoD in response to this shameless lobbying, the result will be the thousands of critical studies managers will have to produce to cover their asses for building something with OSS in the past that will now have to go away unless an exemption is granted.

Those who took the OSS paths may find their livelihoods threatened. This is cornered-animal territory.