Re: [LIP] Re: [Possible -OT][crosspost] Is linux miltary grade

On Thu, 18 Mar 2004, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote:

> On Thursday 18 March 2004 09:47, Spoonman wrote:
> > Shantanu Kumar wrote:
> > > On Wed, 2004-03-17 at 10:57, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote:
> > >>AFAIK the defense network is running on M$ NT and 2000
> > >
> > > No, it's actually a mix with a growing inclination towards GNU/Linux in
> > > particular and FOSS in general.
> >
> > AFAIK The DRDO is using linux in a few solutions they make for
> > themselves. The army in general is on M$.
> 
> actually there is no such animal as military grade software. Its all a hype 
> created by some parties. There is only good software and bad software. The 
> best software will always be in places where profits count - not in 
> bureaucratic environments that practice single entry book keeping

Although you are right that there is only good and bad software, 
military-grade software does exist: it is just a standards 
specification. So they might prefer a certain crypto algorithm over 
another, require the use of ACLs over normal user/group permissions, 
etc.

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