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Green Hills Software on free software in the military

Green Hills Software on free software in the military

Posted Apr 8, 2004 23:30 UTC (Thu) by dmenest (guest, #4017)
In reply to: Green Hills Software on free software in the military by allesfresser
Parent article: Green Hills Software on free software in the military

Also, the problem of not being able to trust the compiler that compiled the compiler that compiled the compiler . . . is not restricted to Free/Open Source Software. Proprietary software is just as vulnerable. Even if Green Hills writes their own compiler, which compiler did they use to compile it?


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