Hugh Shelton on Red Hat BoD

[Roger Oberholtzer]

On Tue, 06 May 2003 00:57:01 -0700
Rick Forrister <rickf at ktb.net> wrote:

> > Nah, but the "Old Buddies" routine might get the military to make more 
> > use of Linux in some form.
> > That will be the day.  Do you have any idea how many laptops the army 
> > took to Iraq?  All in order to bury the enemy
> > in an avalanche of PowerPoint briefings. 
> 
> Don't know how many went to Iraq, but it was more than a few, I'd bet. 
>  We had enough of the things in Saudi Arabia during round one.

Although there is a Linux user's group at the University in Riyadh, Linux is
pretty much unknown there, and probably Iraq as well. The military could
have protected their info a bit more if they had considered that.


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