[Glastonbury] [Fsfe-uk] Channel 4 News: Windows warfare (fwd)

steve steve at fractalsoup.org
Wed Oct 13 00:14:43 BST 2004


Martin Wheeler wrote:

>
> WMD = Windows for Mass Destruction?
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2004 23:23:33 +0100
> From: Paul Mobbs <mobbsey at gn.apc.org>
> To: fsfe-uk at gnu.org
> Subject: [Fsfe-uk] Channel 4 News: Windows warfare
>
> Windows warfare
>
> Published: 09-Oct-2004 By: Julian Rush
>
>
> It runs most of our office and domestic computers - but should it be 
> trusted
> with matters of life and death?
>
> The Ministry of Defence has chosen the Windows operating system for the
> war-fighting computers of the Royal Navy's latest destroyers.
>
> But a combat-systems expert from the company designing the technology 
> says
> `Windows 2000' is neither reliable nor secure enough for the job.

hmmm...
did they not realise that the star trek universe is based on oss?



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