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.
2010/10/30 Nitesh Mistry mailbox@mistrynitesh.net:
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. 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.
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