Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2001 00:39:36 +0200 From: morten@hotpost.dk (Morten Liebach) To: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: BSD direction/Damonnews article Message-ID: <20010608003936.A22138@hotpost.dk> In-Reply-To: <20010607214537.M1756-100000@hades.hell.gr>; from keramidi@otenet.gr on Thu, Jun 07, 2001 at 09:48:18PM %2B0300 References: <20010606120032.A12215@darkstar.gte.net> <20010607214537.M1756-100000@hades.hell.gr>
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On 7, Jun, 2001 at 09:48:18PM +0300, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > 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. I read somewhere that the german army has seen the ligth, at asked Siemens to build some OS for their use, as they don't trust Microsoft. In France I think the governement does some mistrust MS too ... so they prefer 'Open Source'[1]. HAND Morten [1]: How they define that I don't know. -- If you don't understand or are scared by any of the above ask your parents or an adult to help you. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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