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Just because you have the source code, doesn't mean you have the knowledge to fix it before you die.
Sure, but without it, you stand no chance at all.
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Sure, but without it, you stand no chance at all.
windows is source-available if you have deep enough pockets: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/sharedsource/enterprise-sour...
One must have balls of steel to run windows on a spaceship.
Personally, I wouldn't be stoked to run Linux on them either to be honest. But both are being done. Practicality rules I suppose.
With Windows, you need to beg and pay Microsoft for customizations and hope these changes will not cause other issues.
Plus, most space projects are on a tight and limited budgets where management would rather spend on hardware than software.
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Personally, I wouldn't be stoked to run Linux on them either to be honest. But both are being done. Practicality rules I suppose.
What's the practical benefit of using Windows here?
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Just because you have the source code, doesn't mean you have the knowledge to fix it before you die.
No, but you can review the source code before (or at any point), whereas with Windows, you cannot even do that.
Just because you can read it, doesn't mean you can or will be able to actually fix it; not because of technicality, but because of personal knowledge.
In this case, they are both black boxes.
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windows is source-available if you have deep enough pockets: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/sharedsource/enterprise-sour...
Anyway, I was responding to someone who wouldn't run either on a spaceship so I still would like to know what they would want to run. I am from a formal verification school of thought, so I would want something sel4.
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Personally, I wouldn't be stoked to run Linux on them either to be honest. But both are being done. Practicality rules I suppose.
Having sourcecode to everything would make me trust things more as at least we could fix things without calling MS. But what would you run? QNX? BSD?
One must have balls of steel to run windows on a spaceship.
One must have balls of steel to run windows on a spaceship.
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Just because you have the source code, doesn't mean you have the knowledge to fix it before you die.
No, but you can review the source code before (or at any point), whereas with Windows, you cannot even do that.