Re: [LUG] US Air Force moves to Linux

[Paul Sutton <zleap@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 13/01/12 08:54, Grant Phillips-Sewell wrote:

On Jan 13, 2012 8:21 AM, "Martijn Grooten" <sweetwatergeek@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> http://informationweek.com/news/security/attacks/232400275
>
> Interesting. I would imagine open source to sound really bad in
> military circles.
>
> Martijn.
>
Or really good add they'll have the source code so they can check that there's no hidden backdoors and the software will do what it's supposed to do.

Grant

Having the source code also means you can modify and optimise the code,   so it does exactly what you want,  fix bugs quickly etc

paul

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