[TriLUG] Green Hills calls Linux 'insecure' for defense

[matusiak]

hey -- anyone in the embedded market want to comment on this?  Green  
Hills produces their own RTOS and is obviously tired of the competition  
from Linux.  they proclaim that rogue nations such as China, Russia and  
others are potentially putting dangerous back-door/malicious code into  
Linux.

i am not a code contributor, so it is hard for me to gauge such  
complaints, but i tend to feel that there are simply too many eyes on  
the project to allow such security lapses.  unless all developers  
decide at once to comply with changes that threatened the security of  
the USA.  i'm not convinced that would happen.

http://www.eet.com/sys/news/ 
showArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=DOULNYXURUXKKQSNDBCCKHY?articleID=18900949

thankfully, they interviewed some folks that don't seem to agree.
/drm
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At least one embedded expert thought O'Dowd was overstating his case.  
"I think it's pure FUD [fear, uncertainty and doubt]," said Rick  
Lehrbaum, a respected board-level-computing guru and former president  
of Ampro Computer and currently operator of the developer site  
LinuxDevices.com. "I think the insecurity he's concerned about is an  
intentional back door and this [Linux] is the most transparent  
operating system in existence."