Indian armed forces gives Windows its marching orders, but only for desktop warriors
Indian mythology is rich beyond measure in tales of gods, demons, and humans doing battle. Deception, alliances, betrayal, supernatural weaponry, and devastating consequences tangle with morality and greed. If you think that sounds like today's global technology maelstrom, that's forgivable.
So when the Indian Ministry of Defence announced that it would be ditching Microsoft Windows in favor of"locally developed" open source Maya OS to increase security, it's fair to see this as part of the great cycle of conflict between FOSS and proprietary systems. Such decisions are never purely pragmatic, even though that's frequently the justification, and when policy rather than practicality has the upper hand, the results can be excitingly mixed.
Let's stick to the practical for starters. We all know what Windows is, what it does, and why it has such a special place in our hearts – Maya OS is new. It is also"developed by government agencies within six months [and] is capable of preventing cyber threats and malware attacks," according toThat doesn't seem so bad.
The history of migrating from Windows to Linux is not so great. Not so much demons in the details as entire circles of Hell vomiting up squadrons of the beasts. Famously, the administration of Munich signed up to Club Penguin only to come. That wasn't because of any technical superiority deep in the guts of the OS, but because the organization needed to use many hundreds of third party line-of-business packages and services that really didn't like Linux.
That's always been a miscomprehension. Sure, the military has a lot of unique features, including weapons-festooned aircraft, ships, and land vehicles exempt from safety standards. Those, and the unfashionably clad people who operate them, are what it's all about. Only they're not: they're the admittedly unorthodox sales, marketing, and distribution departments of a large and ungainly organization.
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