Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2001 12:00:32 -0700 From: Robert Clark <res03db2@gte.net> To: Rick Hamell <hamellr@heorot.1nova.com> Cc: Michael Lucas <mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: BSD direction/Damonnews article Message-ID: <20010606120032.A12215@darkstar.gte.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0106050927320.2416-100000@heorot.1nova.com>; from hamellr@heorot.1nova.com on Tue, Jun 05, 2001 at 09:28:58AM -0700 References: <20010606062937.A86880@blackhelicopters.org> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0106050927320.2416-100000@heorot.1nova.com>
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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] On Tue, Jun 05, 2001 at 09:28:58AM -0700, Rick Hamell wrote: > > > The military here in the States uses NT for some of their control > > systems on some ships. Meanwhile, foreign powers are free to use > > whatever they like, in particular software with secrecy-friendly > > licenses such as FreeBSD. > > > > Now that would be a test of software! And here I am on the side > > defended by NT... > > I wish I still had the link, but there was an article a couple of > years ago about the Navy testing out a new "fully automated" warship > running NT. Apparently one of the 75+ systems blue screened and left the > ship DOA in the water. :0 > > Rick > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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