12 Jun
2009
12 Jun
'09
8:10 p.m.
I question the whole notion of using open source in military weapons. It seems like a rather basic violation of operational security. Perhaps your enemies will exploit your bugs instead of nicely reporting them and submitting patches on SourceForge ;-)
Eric Raymond would argue that it's probably the other way around -- proprietary software doesn't have enough eyeballs to make it safe. :-)
I guess in some cases it wouldn't matter if it were open source: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124027491029837401.html I'm not sure of the seriousness (or mental stability) of Mr. "OMEGA RED", but I definitely got a chuckle from this :) - Phillip