This seem dangerous.
Software glitches leave Navy Smart Ship dead in the water
At least with an open operating system the naval troubleshooters can
locate and fix the problem whether it is in their application or in
the operating system. That sounds more secure to me. I hate to
think of our national security being dependent on source code that
some company keeps hidden from our government.
Of course, the alternative would bother me as well. Opening the
source code to the naval programmers and our government pay them to
fix MS source code so MS can sell it and make lots of money at our
expense. The only solution that wouldn't bother me too much is for
MS to continue selling their product but include source code with
each purchase (unfortunately their product is probably so buggy we
would have to put up with 10 years of horrible security issues
before things would get better).
