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Indian Military Organization To Develop Its Own OS

Posted by timothy on from the there-are-drawbacks-to-this dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Several newspapers have reported that DRDO (the defence R&D organization of the Indian military) is planning to create an OS. The need for this arose due to the cyber security concerns facing India and that all [conventional] operating systems are made outside India. About 50 professionals in Bangalore and New Delhi are expected to start work on this operating system." At least one of the linked articles says the new OS, though home-grown, would run Windows software.

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  1. Have you ever met? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Have you ever met a india IT worker that has one speck of innovative thinking? I certainly haven't, they are fantastic of doing what they are told but ask them to come up with something on their own and expect to be disappointed. I cannot say I am surprised they want to install a branding wall paper and call it the new India OS.

  2. Oh please, these people can't even do a CGI by Sarusa · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Has India ever produced any decent software? No. Every time we've outsourced to them (against my fervent objections every time but the first) they've been unable to deliver something robust, secure, or even functional - it always consists of code snippets they've Googled (TM), pasted together then flailed on till it compiles and produces the exact same output as the specification calls for (hard coded).

    There's no freaking way they could write anything as complex as Windows compatible from the ground up (this is a gargantuan task for anybody), so it's going to be WINE on top of Linux or BSD with some splash screens stuck on it. 50 Indian outsourcers sounds about the right amount of people for that.