[Discuss] US Navy buys Linux to guide drone fleet

[richard.pieri at gmail.com (Richard Pieri)]

On Jun 11, 2012, at 6:21 PM, Daniel Feenberg wrote:
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> But DoD does have at least one Linux based official distribution:

True... but as Jerry pointed out it's a matter of procurement which in turn is a matter of what the contractor has written into the contract.  Back when I worked at Prescient we got the ATF programme to require one of our applications.  Regardless of who won the bid they'd be using our software.  It's a package deal.

--Rich P.