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Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2001 12:00:32 -0700
From: Robert Clark <res03db2@gte.net>
To: Rick Hamell <hamellr@heorot.1nova.com>
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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
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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
> 
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