"Amos Shapira" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Actually, I think you are right. Would the Israeli army agree for >> workers of a company from a foreign country to be in charge of >> installing & maintaining security software on the Israeli army's >> computers? Remember that a company can receive a court order from >> its > > Are you suggesting that the Israeli army uses only home-built > computers, OS and applications?
I don't know. Maybe one or another of this list's subscribers can divulge a secret or two... ;-) Now, let's get serious, and look at, say, the Chinese. They build the computers :-), one of the stated reasons for development of Red Flag Linux was lack of trust in Microsoft, and I bet there are tons of home-grown applications, some of which are used by government and military. I don't actually know, but I would be extremely surprised if there weren't. I would also be very surprised to discover that the Russians have abandoned their national paranoia and used Windows to run critical military applications. In other recent news, both the the Brits and the Aussies demanded the complete source code for the Joint Strike Fighter software and firmware to avoid dependency on the US. I hope no one will suggest that all the decision-makers in the British Commonwealth, China, and Russia are intellectually challenged. -- Oleg Goldshmidt | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.goldshmidt.org ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
