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When NASA chose to use Linux and ffmpeg on the latest Mars mission, the open source community celebrated.
So here's something that came to my mind. If we found out the US military used Linux, or some other popular open source project, in the workings of the next-gen weapon of war, something that surpasses nukes in destruction ability, how would the community react?
@alyx they do
@alyx open source weapons, kino
@alyx They would turn a blind eye for the most part.
@alyx >open source community celebrated
Linux isn't even "open source" though? It's proprietary software.
Linux is only a kernel and isn't even properly realtime (even with patches), so it's not suitable for usage within powerful weapons.
Linux isn't even "open source" though? It's proprietary software.
Linux is only a kernel and isn't even properly realtime (even with patches), so it's not suitable for usage within powerful weapons.
@alyx Passing up nukes simply isn’t possible, unless we’re talking about achieving this scale of destruction through pure quantity.