OSS torpedoed: Royal Navy will run on Windows for Warships

[sime]

There really is a problem when senior management of large corporate companies bury their heads under a blanket of shit (commonly referred to as politics and greed) hold meetings and totally ignore the advice of known experts because they apparently know better. If those people did know better then would be the ones holding PhD's degrees etc in Computer Science, Applied maths, physics or some equally no bull shit degree.

This is no joke Ms windows is going to be in control of NUKES when it should not be in charge of a coffee machine.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/09/06/ams_goes_windows_for_warships/

I should think your average terrorist is currently doing back flips particularly as the US homeland defence chose the same pile of bantha foodu as their OS. Finaly as a tax paying member of the UK public strongly I object to the UK government giving my tax contributions to BAE Systems, CSC, and MS when there is a totally viable, cheaper and more secure option available that cant be hacked by a 5 year old script kiddie with a copy of VB.

Have IQ's dropped sharpley within the ranks of UK government / procurement or what!

[mobrien_12]

It seems to me that a BSD variant would be the strongest choice for warship combat systems.  It's incredibly stable, has enormous uptimes, runs on a wide range of CPU architectures, and is modular.  

Plus, they could modify the kernels and keep the modifications secret if they wanted to.

And it sounds like they had UNIX software already which would have been easy to port.

Maybe this is a result of SCO Groups behavior.  Maybe the heads of BAE figured that it was legally less risky to go with a Microsoft OS because Darl and Co have been threatening everyone with lawsuits over Linux, claim that GCC violates their copyright (BSD needs GCC) and have been making vague threats to the *BSD camp.

[ September 07, 2004: Message edited by: M. O'Brien ]

[Xeen]

Is this really a surprise? I mean with George Corporate Daddy Bush's lapdog Blair in office and all...?

[ September 07, 2004: Message edited by: xeen ]

[Laukev7]

quote:Originally posted by xeen:
Is this really a surprise? I mean with George Corporate Daddy Bush in office and all...?

I think you mean Tony Blair.

 

quote: Have IQ's dropped sharpley within the ranks of UK government / procurement or what!

[Xeen]

whoops...yea I meant Blair.

[WMD]

quote:OSS torpedoed: Royal Navy will run on Windows for Warships

GASP!  Anyone else get this idea?



   

Anyway, I'd figure QNX would be best for a nuke ship.

[Laukev7]

Well, I wouldn't mind Bush or Blair using Windows on their warships. It would be fun to have them crash while they invade yet another country!  

[skyman8081]

quote:Originally posted by xeen:
Is this really a surprise? I mean with George Corporate Daddy Bush's lapdog Blair in office and all...?

[ September 07, 2004: Message edited by: xeen ]

Odd, considering that Tony Blair was elected in 1997

[Laukev7]

quote:Originally posted by Agent Sauron:


Odd, considering that Tony Blair was elected in 1997

That doesn't make him any less of a lapdog. Either that, or he suddenly had a reason to lick Bush's arse (probably blackmail).

[Refalm]

quote:WMD: Anyway, I'd figure QNX would be best for a nuke ship.

Yes, and it looks cool too (screenshot)!

[cahult]

Isn

[WMD]

quote:Originally posted by Refalm / BOB:
Yes, and it looks cool too (screenshot)!

Damn straight it does.  Plus it's realtime, and near impossible to crash.

[Stilly]

id thinkt he most secure OS for the government to use would be an os they claimed was windows that also looked the same but had a completely different kernel and all that other computeriffic shit.

[solarismka]

quote:Originally posted by the stiller:
id thinkt he most secure OS for the government to use would be an os they claimed was windows that also looked the same but had a completely different kernel and all that other computeriffic shit.

Linux with an XP interface

[skyman8081]

quote:Originally posted by kn0wn / BOB:


Linux with an XP interface

ok:
http://www.xpde.com/