Saturday, October 16, 2010

Indian Military Organization To Develop Its Own OS

Some headlines are filled with irony, such as these
 

http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/India-to-develop-its-own-futuristic-computer-operating-system/articleshow/6719490.cms

 

DRDO makes proposal to develop its own operating system. Sounds Amazing..50 people are going to create a new OS under guidance of DRDO and they think that keeping source code secret will keep their data safe. I would like to see DRDO beat the security levels, Microsoft takes 2K best engineers to create just a new version of an existing OS. Microsoft releases security patches every 2nd Tuesday of every alternative months. NASA does have it's own OS, but even those are hacked regularly. Hackers just need http response to know what the OS is doing and hack it. Country specific issues can pertain to security or maybe some features which are very very limited. All I could think of is it will be Real Time Operating system with windows software, source code and proprietary architecture.

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