Hmmmm... When I worked for GM (actually, a subsidiary that made chips, radios, engine controllers, anti-lock brakes, etc...) we heavily used FOSS in our UNIX environment. Ever hear of the Corporate Software Bank? It was a multi-architecture public domain software repository mounted on/usr/std and automatically updated with rdist. That spread throughout the sub into other GM locations. Even did a USENIX LISA presentation in the early 90's on the topic. (Caveat, I haven't been there since the late 90's so things could have radically changed since then.
I saw a demo of this by Max a couple of weeks ago when I was in Europe. One of the first things that came to mind was developing a PoE (http://www.arxceo.com/) or USB-powered (http://www.yoggie.com/) Linux-based device to sell to law enforcement agencies to gather keystrokes to ascertain encryption keys without tipping the suspect.
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Excellent - laugh of the day!!
And a dirt pile to go along with it. You just summarized my childhood!
This is the company with a monopoly on [some|most] of rural MN telecommunications and broadband...
Hmmmm... When I worked for GM (actually, a subsidiary that made chips, radios, engine controllers, anti-lock brakes, etc...) we heavily used FOSS in our UNIX environment. Ever hear of the Corporate Software Bank? It was a multi-architecture public domain software repository mounted on /usr/std and automatically updated with rdist. That spread throughout the sub into other GM locations. Even did a USENIX LISA presentation in the early 90's on the topic. (Caveat, I haven't been there since the late 90's so things could have radically changed since then.
I saw a demo of this by Max a couple of weeks ago when I was in Europe. One of the first things that came to mind was developing a PoE (http://www.arxceo.com/) or USB-powered (http://www.yoggie.com/) Linux-based device to sell to law enforcement agencies to gather keystrokes to ascertain encryption keys without tipping the suspect.