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Green Hills Software Decides Linux Isn't So Bad

Posted by timothy on from the welcome-aboard-how-was-your-swim dept.

An anonymous reader submits a link to this report on LinuxDevices.com, which begins "An outspoken open source detractor has paid Linux a back-handed compliment. Green Hills Software (GHS), known for diatribes against Linux in military/aerospace applications, is shipping 'Padded Cell technology' intended to enable the company's proprietary real-time OS to take advantage of the wealth of Linux application software." You may remember GHS's Dan O'Dowd, who's claimed that the embedded Linux Tools Market is a myth and that the open source nature of Linux makes it a threat to national security.

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  1. It is true by ilyanep · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Linux can be a threat to national security because any computer-savvy terrorist can hack it.

    But this is another case of what we call a fair weather fan. Next week they'll be telling us that Microsoft is evil...heh.

    --
    ~Ilyanep
    To get message, take amount of carrier pigeons at each stage mod 2. Then decode binary.
  2. Re:Good by grozzie2 · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    That doesn't surprise me, after all, lawyers make very shitty people, so its not surprising that decent folks make really shitty lawyers.

  3. Whaaa? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    LMFAO at "wealth of Linux application software". I'm afraid ls, md, rm, etc. do not qualify as "applications".