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I almost couldn’t write this post.\u00a0 My sides hurt from laughing so hard.\u00a0 This story about Google being outraged<\/a> by the NSA hacking is absolutely hilarious!\u00a0 Seriously???\u00a0 You run a business on a “free” OS on a joke-of-the-industry CPU and you are outraged you got hacked?\u00a0 I got news for you, the source is available to everyone.\u00a0 Much of the code which goes in gets written by people who are unemployed and may not even have a degree in IT or software development.\u00a0 It is more than fine for a desktop, but if you think it is something to base a business on you should be polite enough to share what you’re smoking.<\/p>\n

There is exactly one OS to use for a business<\/a>.<\/p>\n

July 2001\u2014OpenVMS deemed unhackable<\/strong>
\nOpenVMS was declared “unhackable” at DEFCON 9 after an OpenVMS Web server was set up at this self-proclaimed underground convention for “hackers” and enthusiasts. Allegedly, the OpenVMS operators were “told never to return” because trying to hack the OpenVMS operating system was too frustrating.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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