A national, open-source operating system could help reduce Canada’s dependence on the U.S. while improving security and saving a surprising amount of money.
Which is exactly what they would do if they were to switch. Starting from scratch would be incredibly stupid, and there’s no reasonable way to secure a brand new system when we simply don’t employ enough programmers of that kind at the govt level.
Just…use…linux!?
And make their own distro. No need to build something from scratch! For fucks sake!
Why make their own distro? Just use fucking Ubuntu or Red Hat or Suse. You don’t need HeyDereHiDereHoDereOS.
Which is exactly what they would do if they were to switch. Starting from scratch would be incredibly stupid, and there’s no reasonable way to secure a brand new system when we simply don’t employ enough programmers of that kind at the govt level.