Linux And Beijing

Headed by an unnamed correspondent, many people have written about this story: "The China Red Flag Linux has surfaced again, this time in the New York Times. Turns out there may be some truth to the story that Linux is being pushed by the Chinese government." I do like this tidbit, even though it demonstrates the article's overall superficial tone: "Nonetheless, Great Wall Computer, one of China's biggest PC makers, has already shipped 200,000 desktop computers loaded with the Linux operating system, which looks much like Windows though it cannot yet match all of Microsoft's features." I can think of some features we can do without ...

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Re:nothing to do with Communism

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China does have legitimate security concerns about using a closed source operating system. U.S. intelligence agencies have a history of arranging for design modifications in equipment provided to intelligence targets.

Would the NSA sign off on the use of an operating system for sensitive data by the U.S. Government if they weren't allowed to audit and evaluate the source code?