Re: [OFFTOPIC] Re: Raytheon and Linux

H. Peter Anvin (hpa@transmeta.com)
14 Jul 1998 03:07:08 GMT

Followup to: <Pine.LNX.3.95.980713210836.9066A-100000@hhmi.swmed.edu>
By author: Kurt Watkins <watkins@hhmi.swmed.edu>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> All that to say that you aren't alone in your struggle to use Linux at
> Raytheon:-) I know there are active user groups here in Dallas TX (well,
> Raytheon System Company, I^2AIS at what used to be E-Systems Garland) and
> I'm actively promoting Linux with a few forward thinking customers, some
> of which might be quite the surprise. The intelligence community is not as
> thick-headed as you might expect, just a little slow (and always wanting
> to go faster;-)
>

<conspiracy_theory>

Well, Don Becker used to work for the NSA, didn't he? The stuff the
NSA is presumed to be doing is stuff that is eminently parallelizable
and would work *very* well on even very large Beowulf cluster... and
there is the rumour that the NSA doesn't want adversaries to know how
much computer resources they have and so want to buy from as many
sources as possible, which would make PC software even better
suited...

</conspiracy_theory>

-hpa

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