Is Linux a National Security Risk?

Proprietary OS vendor Green Hills and its CEO Dan O’Dowd have launched a broadside against the use of Linux in military and defense applications.Green Hills has issued a press release based on O’Dowd’s anti-Linux remarks at a speech to the Net-Centric Operations Industry Forum in McLean, Va.


The open source process violates every principle of security. It welcomes everyone to contribute to Linux. Now that foreign intelligence agencies and terrorists know that Linux is going to control our most advanced defense systems, they can use fake identities to contribute subversive software that will soon be incorporated into our most advanced defense systems.

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