Then why do they run linux?

Then why do they run linux?

Posted May 4, 2004 16:27 UTC (Tue) by mikesalib (subscriber, #17162)
Parent article: Green Hills Software strikes again

If linux is such a security nightmare, then I'd love to know why they use it internally so much. After all, if linux allows "bad" people to compromise critical systems, then bad people could easily compromise Green Hills and then compromise their proprietary RTOS.

Granted, they don't use linux for everything, but they do use it a fair bit. Their debugger and compiler tools all run on linux, some of their developers run linux on their desktops, and they've done a lot of work adding gcc-compatability to their compiler so they can compile the linux kernel. If linux is such a threat to national security, none of that work seems very patriotic...

These observations are based on what I saw when I interviewed there about 2 months ago.

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