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Open Source Software In the Military
JohnMoD writes With the advent of forge.mil, etc. the military seems to be getting on board with free and open source software. A working group meeting is going to be held at Georgia Tech in Atlanta, August 12-13, 2009. There's a pretty good lineup of speakers including a Marine from the Iraq-Marine Expeditionary Forces, who was on the ground and saw the agility open source gave to him and his soldiers. A number of OSS projects are going to be meeting there: Delta 3D, OpenCPI, FalconView, OSSIM, Red Hat, etc. Looks like there will be some good discussions."
No you are wrong.
When Microsoft's products crash (guidance tracking on cruise missiles) THEY SAVE LIVES.
Al: Uh-oh, quick! Should we use gnuke, knuke, or just bare-bones nuke?
Bob: Ah, definitely not knuke, it screws up at least half of the commands it sends to nuke. Maybe gnuke, it's at least a competent front-end, but it's missing a bunch of the functionality of nuke -- the dev got bored and was pulled onto another project. But the command-line for nuke is so obtuse that it will take two or three tries just to get the command right, and those first two bad commands might be worse than not using it at all. Of course, nobody has what you would call real-world experience with any of them . . .
Al: Ah sh*t, too late anyway.
Sorry, it was the first thing I thought of when I saw the gnuke tag on the story.