[SunRescue] OT: CA: It's Our Turn

Bill Bradford rescue at sunhelp.org
Mon Apr 9 09:17:14 CDT 2001


On Mon, Apr 09, 2001 at 02:04:28AM -0400, Joshua D. Boyd wrote:
> There is a new space hardened embeded SPARC chip out of europe.  May that
> could be repurposed to retrofit the computers in our cars.  I mean, after
> if we have open source software, and now an opensource CPU, the next
> logical step is open source cars, right?

The last thing I want is an "oh shit" bugfix patch for my car's OS
because some coder in North Carolina was pulling an all-nighter and
made a typo....

Bill ("hotfix?  Try applying patches at 75mph...")

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Bill Bradford
mrbill at mrbill.net
Austin, TX



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