hey -- anyone in the embedded market want to comment on this? Green Hills produces their own RTOS and is obviously tired of the competition from Linux. they proclaim that rogue nations such as China, Russia and others are potentially putting dangerous back-door/malicious code into Linux.
i am not a code contributor, so it is hard for me to gauge such complaints, but i tend to feel that there are simply too many eyes on the project to allow such security lapses. unless all developers decide at once to comply with changes that threatened the security of the USA. i'm not convinced that would happen.
http://www.eet.com/sys/news/ showArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=DOULNYXURUXKKQSNDBCCKHY?articleID=18900949
thankfully, they interviewed some folks that don't seem to agree.
They're on crack.
Inserting a back door into something that millions of people have source code access to is a lot more difficult than inserting a back door into a closed source OS. Why do you think so many governments are either moving to linux or demanding MS give them their source code.
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