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| From | JEDIDIAH <jedi@nomad.mishnet> |
| Subject | Re: Who SERIOUSLY uses Linux for SERIOUS WORK, seriously? |
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| Message-ID | <slrnivc2ml.8jt.jedi@nomad.mishnet> (permalink) |
| Date | 2011-06-13 08:04 -0500 |
Cross-posted to 2 groups.
On 2011-06-12, flatfish+++ <flatfish@marianatrench.com> wrote:
> On Sun, 12 Jun 2011 13:45:48 -0700 (PDT), JeffM wrote:
>
>> Ian Hilliard wrote:
>>>The biggest player in the embedded world is Linux
>>>[...]medical monitoring systems
>>>
>> Doesn't it creep you out when you go into a medical facility
>> and see equipment running Windoze?
>> I imagine that crap getting one of M$'s "critical updates"[1]
>> and deciding to auto-reboot in the middle of a procedure.
>
> So next time you are hooked up to all those machines and the Doctor's
> are trying to save your life, why not demand they disconnect them and
> run only Linux or FOSS???
Being creeped out by medical equipment running WinDOS over "licensing"
has less to do with how Linux is licensed and more to do with the fact
that Windows in general is not licensed/warranted for that sort of work.
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Re: Who SERIOUSLY uses Linux for SERIOUS WORK, seriously? Ian Hilliard <nospam@nowhere> - 2011-06-12 14:21 +0200
Re: Who SERIOUSLY uses Linux for SERIOUS WORK, seriously? JeffM <jeffm_@email.com> - 2011-06-12 13:45 -0700
Re: Who SERIOUSLY uses Linux for SERIOUS WORK, seriously? flatfish+++ <flatfish@marianatrench.com> - 2011-06-12 17:11 -0400
Re: Who SERIOUSLY uses Linux for SERIOUS WORK, seriously? Hadron<hadronquark@gmail.com> - 2011-06-13 05:42 +0200
Re: Who SERIOUSLY uses Linux for SERIOUS WORK, seriously? JEDIDIAH <jedi@nomad.mishnet> - 2011-06-13 08:04 -0500
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