Talk:COS (operating system)
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Closed source is insecure, so we make another closed source?
[edit]The article states "The operating system is based on Linux but the platform is closed source as open source allegedly comes with security risks. Security and the risk of back doors in devices from foreign vendors are some of the main motivations for COS." This is idiotic. Closed source causes back doors and unpatchable secure issues, not opensource! So they refused to take Cyanogen Mod, which is Android without blobs, that are used for hardware drivers anyway, and replace it with own closed source version of Linux? How is this exactly "secure"? Also, mobile devices are security problematic not via Android or iOS part, but via other underlying real-time OS that runs in parallel and is capable to write in memory directly. 77.180.67.81 (talk) 16:57, 31 March 2014 (UTC)
COS is Cray / How can it be closed source?
[edit]Firstly, COS is the "Cray Operating System" and it is by no means established that the abbreviation COS is pointing to this Chinese nonsense. So I find it quite wrong to call it "COS (operating system" as in the common sense of the interested parties, COS is ANOTHER operating system.
Secondly, how can it be closed source if it is using the Linux kernel? Surely SOME parts of it MUST be open source, at the very least the kernel itself! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 193.111.47.174 (talk • contribs) 00:15, August 25, 2014 (UTC)
Current status?
[edit]Looking at the Internet Archives for the web site listed, they seem to have gone away sometime between late 2018 and early 2019. The URL currently goes to a page saying that the site hasn't obtained an ICP license.--NapoliRoma (talk) 20:46, 22 May 2021 (UTC)