From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Jun 7 13:49:43 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mailsrv.otenet.gr (mailsrv.otenet.gr [195.170.0.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3AD5537B406 for ; Thu, 7 Jun 2001 13:49:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from keramidi@otenet.gr) Received: from hades.hell.gr (patr530-b022.otenet.gr [195.167.121.150]) by mailsrv.otenet.gr (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f57KnOf19072; Thu, 7 Jun 2001 23:49:24 +0300 (EEST) Received: (from charon@localhost) by hades.hell.gr (8.11.3/8.11.3) id f57ImJ101788; Thu, 7 Jun 2001 21:48:19 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from keramidi@otenet.gr) Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2001 21:48:18 +0300 (EEST) From: Giorgos Keramidas X-X-Sender: To: Robert Clark Cc: Rick Hamell , Michael Lucas , Subject: Re: BSD direction/Damonnews article In-Reply-To: <20010606120032.A12215@darkstar.gte.net> Message-ID: <20010607214537.M1756-100000@hades.hell.gr> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed, 6 Jun 2001, Robert Clark wrote: > I have a hard time believing that a foreign government > interested in national defense is going to care at all > about what kind of license an OS is released under. > > [RC] Well, at times, I have heard arguments like: o Windows is created by an American company. o The source is not open, therefore it may be 'hiding' stuff that we do not know and never will find out about. o If they wanted, they could place hooks for remotely controlling our programs. and other things that are more or less paranoid. When you are at war, I guess, everything is important. Especially what software you use to run the whole thing. -giorgos To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message