Weak Microsoft Software Threatens National Security: Defense & Economy

Lan Barnes lan.barnes at tenngroup.com
Tue Feb 15 15:02:18 PST 2000


Tracy R Reed wrote:
> 
> On Tue, Feb 15, 2000 at 01:04:51AM -0800, Robert DeVries wrote:
> > WHAT IF, the Chinese military decides to choose Linux as the official OS?
> > Where would that leave us?
> 
> I don't see how it would affect us at all or why we would care.
> 

Well, on the subject of know thy enemy (or potential enemy -- I
don't see us getting in a fuss with the PRC any time soon), it
might be a bit of an intelligence advantage if they adopted an OS
that is so well known here.

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Lan Barnes                lan.barnes at tenngroup.com
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