Brain Surgery Robot Running Linux

hherb writes "Singapore has developed a robotic brain surgeon. The interesting bit: based on a Linux platform. Well, what else? Who in his right mind would like to have his brain fondled by a MS product?"

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Re:This actually has one good point . . .

[ColdGrits]

"Programmers need direct access to the code, and one wants to keep things updated as much as possible - which the OS community provides."

Great. JUST what I want when I am in brainsurgery - the robot doing the surgery is running code written by loads of clueless(*) amatures, instead of one written exclusivly by highly trained and experienced professionals and closely reviewed by their peers.

(*) Clueless about brainsurgery et al, which the vast majority of Linux coders are (as are the vast majority of everybody).