HP To Sell Custom High-Security GNU/Linux Distro

bc90021 writes: "CNET has this story about Hewlett Packard's new secure version of Linux. Using 2.4.2, it can supposedly detect attacks as they happen. (At $3,000, I think it should counter-attack, too.) It will be available on HP servers (duh), or on servers that pass the RedHat 7.1 server qualification tests."

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Service=money

[peripatetic_bum]

In all honestly, I do hope the HP does well selling these $3,000 linux boxes. Not because of that its in there, but service/skill it took to actually took to configure the box right.
(I assum of course that the box does what it says it does)

Just like the thought that musicians will give their the music away (via the internet) but charge for real live preformances, the new economy (excuse me) may well be based very much on what the acutally person can do and what can not be replicated digitally. Ie, Doctors don't charge for the information they have and tell you, they charge for the skill in which they apply it to you. That is, all the information about treating asthma is in books, but I doubt ou would want to read the man page asthma and just treat yourself, but you pay the doctor to apply his skill to treat you.

Thus HP is charging for the skill it takes to make more-secure internet boxes and perhaps, in this age, $3000 is a good start and in the future that skill may be worth even more.

Anyway, thanks