[ale] (Slashdot) Microsoft Opens Source to China

[Jonathan Glass]

My summary of the article:
Revealing Microsoft's source code could be detrimental to US security
interests, so they won't reveal it to the US Gov't.  But, they will
reveal it to CHINA, one of our primary rivals.  Gee, that's a brilliant
move.

Jonathan



Posted by michael on Friday February 28, @02:15PM
from the not-part-of-the-axis-of-evil dept.
angst7 writes "ZDNet is reporting that Microsoft has signed an agreement
which would allow the Chinese government access to Windows source code.
This is part of an effort to curb the shift toward Linux in China due to
that country's concerns regarding the security of closed source
software." Reader NZheretic points out that less than a year ago, Jim
Allchin swore under oath that disclosing the Windows operating system
source code could damage national security.

http://slashdot.org/

http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104-990526.html

http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,5264,00.asp



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