On Saturday 30 October 2010 12:44:11 Binand Sethumadhavan wrote: > > On Sat, Oct 30, 2010 at 11:20:22AM +0530, Siddhesh Poyarekar > > wrote: Ok, so my local dentist wants to do heart surgeries to > > prolong life by about 78%. Would you like to be the first patient > > and hence become famous? > > Straw man. In any case, it will depend upon the availability and > cost of other heart surgeons, the threat to my life from heart > disorders, and a number of other factors. > > We have no clue how DRDO plans to do what it proposes to - whether > they are taking an existing OS and modifying it, or going to > develop one completely from scratch. The former has been done > before - SELinux, for example.
Eh. then you should read YOUR link to the PR again. "real-time system with Windows software, source code and architecture will be proprietary, giving us the exclusivity of owning a system unknown to foreign elements and protect our security system," windows -realtime. Sounds like Ganpatidrinkinmilk. Closing the source so that others dont know, is exactly what the trashiest OS in the world is. And one does not rely on knowing the the architecture to create holes. Not to mention that those interested in DRDOs systems are nor script kiddies sitting in cyber cafes. Anyway the TOI link says something different, reading between the lines, - more in line with what he should be doing. > > 2010/10/30 Nitesh Mistry <[email protected]>: > > So according to Mr. Saraswat, by keeping the source code closed, > > one can have a secure system? Yes, I guess he is right, and > > Microsoft Windows is an open source software. > > As I said, we don't know what Mr. Saraswat thinks or intends to do. That is what the PR is supposed to tell us - what organisations are thinking and planning to do. Throw crappy PR up and it all comes raining down. Finally Dr.Saraswat maybe well respected and all that like our favourite billybaba, but we judge by what you do and what you say. Right now i am afraid, if he does what he says (as per your sify link), we will be better off living in the Sahel, when those os get deployed. > If you are really keen on knowing, I suggest you file an RTI > application - it will cost you Rs. 10 and postage. I personally > don't think keeping the source code "closed" is going to be > practical - after all, he'd want applications to be ported to his > new OS, which would mean a lot of people outside of DRDO's > hand-picked team having access to the source code of his OS. I hope the other replies gave you an education - or atleast a dummies guide - to interfacing. -- Rgds JTD -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
