[LEAPSECS] Meeting with Wayne Whyte

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

In message <20110131182800.GX20660 at ucolick.org>, Steve Allen writes:


>We are not the only customers of this system.  We understand that some

>of these telescopes have been sold to DoD and other customers whose

>usage of the telescope pointing system is for satellite tracking.  I

>doubt that their application can so easily tolerate a lie about the

>longitude of their telescopes.


And you don't think a software update in the next 8-10 years could fix
that issue, given that DoD is likely to lean on the vendor to get
this fixed ?

-- 
Poul-Henning Kamp       | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20
phk at FreeBSD.ORG         | TCP/IP since RFC 956
FreeBSD committer       | BSD since 4.3-tahoe    
Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.