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From: mi@aldan.bu.edu (Mikhail Teterin)
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Subject: Re: need secure OS to entrust millions to
Date: 24 Feb 1996 07:36:21 GMT
Organization: Aldan at Newton Upper Falls
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Honorable Jordan K. Hubbard
wrote on Feb 22, 1996 (in article <312D2029.FF6D5DF@freebsd.org>):
=Don't get me wrong, I think that free operating systems are great
=(obviously) and perfectly wonderful for many things, but secure cash
=transactions and running life support systems are not the kinds of
=things I'd entrust to them, if only for pure legal liability reasons.
There must be something wrong with the country, if decisions
are made "for pure legal liability reasons"...
Do not forget, BTW, about recent break-in to Citibank computers by
a guy from Russia. I do not think Citibank was using Linux (or
FreeBSD).
=Buy a commercial OS and the best support contract money can buy.
With all due respect, Mr. President, support contract does not imply
the OS itself has to be commercial.
Or was this all just a flame-bait?
-mi
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