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."

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I remember when there was a USA

[gelfling]

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.