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This seems like a recipe for a failed project - a government agency building an OS. Either that or it will be another linux fork branded as "Government of India
by ojbyrne 16y ago
This seems like a recipe for a failed project - a government agency building an OS. Either that or it will be another linux fork branded as "Government of India."
- mfukar 16y agoTurkey has done it. US has done it. Other have done it.
- htsh 16y agoThe US?
- gaius 16y agoSELinux is an NSA product.
- ojbyrne 16y agoGoogle suggests many governments have done it. And they're all linux variants.
- mfukar 16y agoWhy are you fixating on "Linux variants/forks"? Is there something inherently undesirable about them?
- ojbyrne 16y agoNo, it's just that the linked article says that India is going to be designing and developing a completely new architecture, and I'm suggesting that no country has ever done that. And that the likely result will be monstrous cost and time overruns followed by a quick and dirty forking and rebranding of linux to save face.
- mfukar 16y agoI don't have a link to the official announcement, so I can't be certain, but I doubt they're going to build their own hardware architecture. It's reasonable to think they will develop a new OS; one can only hope to see an actual OS based on the principles behind Minix, but that's my little dream world there. :-)
- ars 16y agoIt means they didn't actually write the OS themself.
- pjscott 16y agoIt sounds to me like a recipe for a successful project, if your definition of success is extracting money from the government. The technical aspect, of course, sounds pretty dodgy.