On Jun 12, 2009, at 5:17 PM, Raymond Hettinger wrote:
[Matthew Wilkes]
Oh, I didn't mean they should use proprietary software, just that
in my experience the kind of people who are active in open source
are quite anti-war, green, etc. There are notable exceptions, but
I know people who worry that their work will have military
applications, and who turn down projects because of it.
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 ;-)
FYI Python (Jython) is already used in production of the F-35. There
was a talk @ PyCon '08 about it:
http://us.pycon.org/2008/conference/schedule/event/27/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zgE55z_RNgQ
--
Philip Jenvey
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