Re: Uncle Sam Wants YOU!

2001-07-06 Thread Tracy R Reed
On Sun, Jul 01, 2001 at 09:09:32PM -0400, William T Wilson wrote: > It's not just MS. Aircraft control rooms (as well as nuclear power > plants, spacecraft mission control, etc.) require special certified > software to be used - it's not simply that they avoid MS, they avoid all > software that h

Re: Uncle Sam Wants YOU!

2001-07-06 Thread Tracy R Reed
On Sun, Jul 01, 2001 at 04:53:25PM -0700, Ben Ford wrote: > I seem to recall that MS products cannot be used in aircraft control > rooms for this reason. Your statement above is not necessarily true. By control rooms do you mean control towers or in the aircraft themselves? Inside the aircraft i

Re: Uncle Sam Wants YOU!

2001-07-01 Thread Tracy R Reed
On Sun, Jul 01, 2001 at 02:11:47PM -0400, Hua Zhong wrote: > There are a lot of people who don't know how to use Linux/Unix. Windows is > much easier for them and has more applications. They practically have no > other choice if they have to use a computer in their jobs (maybe they can > Maci