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To: miraje who wrote (34114)11/17/1999 12:07:00 PM
From: The Duke of URLĀ©  Respond to of 74651
 
I wonder if this is a suit less against MSFT and more about control of the internet. I seem to recall that Red China adopted Linux because of its lack of privacy protections.

Feds build monster Linux computer
The Department of Energy's supercomputer will be based on Intel hardware and the Linux operating system.

By Charles Babcock, Inter@ctive Week
November 17, 1999 7:22 AM PT

The Department of Energy's Argonne National Lab has built its largest supercomputer system ever -- a 256-node cluster that is to be based on Intel hardware and the Linux operating system.




zdnet.com

Hmmmm.