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   Tom "spot" Callaway :fedora: (spot@social.afront.org)'s status on Sunday, 05-May-2024 04:30:15 JST Tom "spot" Callaway :fedora:

   A little story from the "old days of open source": when I was a solutions architect for Red Hat, we visited a large telecommunications company, who wanted to consider moving their SMS infrastructure from UNIX to Linux, but they had a problem.
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     Tom "spot" Callaway :fedora: (spot@social.afront.org)'s status on Sunday, 05-May-2024 04:31:03 JST Tom "spot" Callaway :fedora:

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     In their initial testing, they found Linux to be...too reliable. They didn't want customers to assume that every text message would go through, because they weren't willing to guarantee that, so they asked me if we would make them a custom kernel module.
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