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Did MS Lobbying Stop NSA Work On SELinux?
inquisitive points to this CNET story on how George Wash Univ. may help Linux gain certification under the Common Criteria, certification required for software to be used in some sensitive government roles. In the same story, though, is an interesting quote from another effort at bringing GPL'd software to the public sector: "'We didn't fully understand the consequences of releasing software under the GPL (General Public License),' said Dick Schafer, deputy director of the NSA. 'We received a lot of loud complaints regarding our efforts with SE Linux.'" Sources familiar with events said that aggressive Microsoft lobbying efforts have contributed to a halt on any further work. 'Microsoft was worried that the NSA's releasing open-source software would compete with American proprietary software,' said a source familiar with the complaints against the NSA who asked not to be identified."
One day the United States will have a long range rocket or two loaded with WindowsCE and something's going to go wrong. A windows crash will happen.. the rocket will hit the wrong country.. and it'll cause the third world wear.
And it'll be Bill's fault that only cockroaches and ABIO roam the earth.
If we truly believe in democracy and "one person, one vote"...
Apparently, Bill is the one person with the vote.
"I have opinions of my own, strong opinions, but I don't always agree with them." -- George H. W. Bush
> Have anyone noticed this buzzword used by every Microsoft lobbying effort after 9/11 just to trying to give the probably fake impression of Microsoft being "patriotic"?
Yeah, they're supposedly coming out with Red and White screens of death, too.
BTW, what you observe is hardly limited to Microsoft. Lots of businesses do it, anlong with almost every politician in the country.
Sheesh, evil *and* a jerk. -- Jade
Yeah back in the early part of the century before Redmond bought the rights to everything that ever had been or ever will be invented, thought of, spoken, typed, glyphed or otherwise ideated or communicated in any living or non living mode. Then they put a EULA on the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution and made people pony up dollars if they wanted to be a legitimate licencee of Freedom and Democracy. Everyone else was sent to the Gulags "to protect them from themselves and to insure that the bona owners were not stolen from."
Then they added a new ammendment to the Contitution EULA that effectively invalidated the 13, 14, 15 ammendments of the old Constitution and made it legal for software companies (MS because by then there was only one) to literally own people and make them buy software whether they wanted to or not. Debtor's prisons came back online after over 200 years. The shortway around that was to simply become the nation and hire the entire country as cadres of MS employees. Everyone became a 'limited use MS employee licencee'.
Around 2014 was when DoubleplusXXXP+# was running the food distribution complex in east central Billtania (formerly called the "Midwest") and a major BSOD glitch caused 65 million people to starve to death. In order to make up market share MS tripled the food EULA charges on the survivors and then cut their wages by 30%. Which is when the mass suicides and infanticides began.
In 2018 Bill proclaimed himself God-Man and licenced the air we breathe now.