[olug] funny, true but funny

[T. J. Brumfield]

I loved the article I read where the government announced it was
ditching Unix and Linux from their Aircraft carriers and nuclear subs
in the Navy to shift to Vista, because Vista would make them more
secure. Whose pocket got greased there?

-- T. J.

On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 7:35 AM, Benjamin Watson <bwatson1979 at gmail.com> wrote:
> "yes, ben. i have worked for DOD.
> but i'm not sure what that has to do with anything."
>
> Well, then having worked for the DoD, I'm sure you know how "in bed"
> they are with MS products.  Sure, there are some small Unix/Solaris
> shops around, but the vast majority of desktops/servers/services are
> MS stuff.  In fact, to get "evil" open source products installed on a
> desktop these days usually requires some drawn out waiver process that
> I'm convinced exists to frustrate the requester to the point where
> they have to buy closed/proprietary software.
>
> In my mind, they would be better served rolling their own Linux distro
> and deploying/supporting that rather than paying outrageous support
> costs for MS products and the like.
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