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A few months ago, several computers in the US Air Force they were affected by malware due to the simple fact that they were using Windows.
This embarrassing situation has made the Marina I have decided not to think twice and install linux on all computers that control one of your UAVs from takeoff y landing vertical. |
The contract for the installation of the operating system of Tux has a value of 28 million dollars and has been awarded without competition to the Intelligence and Information Systems division of Raytheon, a company that will create a special distribution for the military branch.
Regarding the use of the GPL, they assure that they can make any necessary changes to the code without the obligation to share it openly as long as the software is used only by the military and the contractors do not maintain any type of rights under the development.
The use of Linux for now affects the 168 Northrop Grumman MQ-8B UAV, but it would not be surprising if they end up adopting that operating system on absolutely every major computer.