[Info-vax] OpenVMS in the future, Open sourced or Closed? Intent is to keep it...

[Bill Gunshannon]

In article <mi4hbh$281i$1 at news.kjsl.com>,
	helbig at asclothestro.multivax.de (Phillip Helbig (undress to reply)) writes:
> In article <d190e3c9-4336-4f74-b958-c1df6354c4fb at googlegroups.com>,
> seasoned_geek <roland at logikalsolutions.com> writes: 
> 
>> When you are OpenSource, you cannot be trusted. That means you cannot be
>> used to run critical systems for the NSA and other "alphabet soup"
>> agencies. They don't have the luxury of loading something as soft as
>> Windows or Linux 
> 
> I Red-Hat guy told me once that their largest customer was the U.S. 
> department of defense.
 
Probably indirectly.  FBCB2/Blue Force Tracker is an application that runs
on top of RedHat Linux.  It is contractor provided and none of the people
other than PMO (and SME's like I was before retiring) are aware that there
is any kind of OS at all.  All they see is the application.  Well, except
when it crashes, and it does.  :-)

bill

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