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you'd never guess this stuff is going to be used to and to enable murder. DoD uses a lot of linux and other open source software. Should we stop working on tha

• kick 7y ago
  Last I checked, Torvalds wasn't getting billions of dollars from the DoD to install Linux on servers. That's a false comparison, and a lazy one at that.
  • jandrese 7y ago
    Almost every government lab I've seen has a rule that says you aren't allowed to use free software in the lab. Everything was supposed to have a vendor that was responsible for it that you were paying. Development labs end up using Linux and other open source software all over the place, but it gets a bit more iffy when you're going into production.
    • arwineap 7y ago
      That's interesting... We had to verify everything was approved through DADSM (potentially navy specific), but other than that as long as we had a legal license to run we were good. This is what forced me into using centos for our deployed infrastructure, and mIRC as our chat client of choice.
    • tpetry 7y ago
      And that is the reason Red Hat is making so much money: Whether it is free or not is not relevant but that you can pay a vendor who will fix your problems in production