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Re: [News] Microsoft Windows Worries US National Co-ordinator for Security and Counterterrorism

  • Subject: Re: [News] Microsoft Windows Worries US National Co-ordinator for Security and Counterterrorism
  • From: Tim Smith <reply_in_group@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2007 21:10:44 -0700
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Organization: Posted via Supernews, http://www.supernews.com
  • References: <3058977.ltShciHBlh@schestowitz.com>
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  • Xref: ellandroad.demon.co.uk comp.os.linux.advocacy:513267
In article <3058977.ltShciHBlh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
 Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Crash strike caution
> 
> ,----[ Quote ]
> | If Microfot's Windows operating system crashes and gives you the "blue
> | screen of death", it's a pain in the proverbial, but it's hardly
> | life-threatening. In 1998, however, a United States Navy destroyer, the
> | USS Yorktown, was left stranded and vulnerable when its Windows
> | NT-based control system failed.

It would have suffered exactly the same failure if it had been running 
Linux, so what is the point of posting this?

-- 
--Tim Smith

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