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Re: [News] US Army Uses A Lot of Red Hat Linux

__/ [ NoStop ] on Tuesday 10 April 2007 01:18 \__

> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
> 
>> Conference Highlights Open Technology Adoption within Defense and
>> Intelligence Systems
>> 
>> ,----[ Quote ]
>> | "When we rolled into Baghdad, we did it using open source," General
>> | Justice continued. "It may come as a surprise to many of you, but the
>> | U.S. Army is "the" single largest install base for Red Hat Linux.
>> | I'm their largest customer."
>> `----
>> 
> How sad that open source can be used in this way to enable the most
> ruthless empire on the planet to further its killing spree. I wish I didn't
> have this information.

Still, better than the blue screen of death. Think of it as a validatiom
argument (security, stability, reliability. I suspect that Windows is not
favoured by any government around the world. The last thing they need is the
NSA mining their data.

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