Subject: RE: Microsoft babbles on
From: Larry Collier (larry@medease.net)
Date: Thu May 23 2002 - 19:48:01 AKDT
The navy has two ships (experimental essentially), that have all WIN 2K
control systems. They are regularly towed into port after the network
crashes and is unrecoverable. The DOD big wigs won't admit it's a failure,
but the on scene comanders want to dump the projects or go to a reliable
*nix system.
Larry
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> Jim
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> Subject: Re: Microsoft babbles on
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> Cisco wrote:
>
> > from http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A60050-2002May22.html
> >
> > Its amazing to see the crap coming out of Microsoft:
> >
> > "Our goal is to resolve difficult issues that are driving a
> wedge between the commercial and free
> > software models,"
> >
> > What? What wedge?? What "resolution" does Microsoft have in
> mind I wonder?
> >
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> Given the persistant rumors of back doors, etc in Microsoft code,
> not to mention the glareing
> security holes, I would think that basing any kind of mission
> critical code on something one could
> not examine would be grotesquely risky. Would be interesting if a
> battle system crashed because some
> fool put a floppy infected with the latest viris de-jour in a drive!
>
> Jim
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