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Microsoft Opens Source to China
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.
just using its own form of open source - you just need to yell "Hey were going to use Linux!" and you get the source ;-)
And this hurts the US National Security?!? WTF!?!
Well, it looks like terrorists are gonna be the first to see the source... :/
You are great player! Present you with points!
What's the corporate punishment for treason?
What's this Submit thingy do?
Sorting through gigabytes of Microsoft legacy code that was written under the pretense that nobody would ever see it. Now there's a scary thought. I'd hate to be the guy with THAT job...
This must be a covert attempt from Microsoft to destroy China by weakening its national security!
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So the US government needs to either arrest Jim Allchin for perjury or Bill Gates for treason.
So which is it, Microsoft? Treason, or perjury (or both)? (Yes, Microsoft bashing is fun, you should try it some time)
The ocean parts and the meteors come down
Laid out in amber, baby.
maybe its not all the source... you know they could just release parts of it.
.... oh wait that's BSDs stack.
Cool, now we can all see the tcp/ip stack
1. Turn over source code to foreign governments hostile to the United States.
2. Compromise National Security.
3. ???
4. Profit!
anyone else having thoughts of the Code Red virus 2 yrs ago that defaced websites with "hacked by Chinese"? Kinda ironic if it happens on a Chinese server, huh?
$cat
No offense to China (I have been, nice country, in the places I was anyways) But does this not seem kinda ironic, Windows, sharing source *whatever strings attached* with China? But on a serious note, whats the chance theyll ever do anything with it? is China gonna make a serious "Windows For China - Big Brother Returns part 4" or is this purely a PR? Karl P
"All warez copies of Windows actually fake versions distributed by the Chinese"
"Microsoft Source Code leaked world-wide"
"Microsoft discontinues entire software division and focuses full force on their Mouse and Keyboard division"
1- China Gets Source
2- China uses Message Queing to break or break into asian corps, and small countries which have little security
3- China now has massive espionage in 2nd/3rd world countries, and united states corporate subsidiaries in those countries
4- China invests heavily in US stock market
5- Profit!
At least that is what an Evil empire would do...
<sarcasm> You'll notice that there are no brown-skinned folks on that list, so rest assured that dangerous information will not fall into the hands of terrorists. </sarcasm>
DUH.
Why is this article listed under the MS topic? I thought Chairman Mao owned the copyright on the "Source to China", or perhaps Karl Marx. How can Microsoft legally distribute it?
I swore at Microsoft all the time. Then I stopped I knew they didn't pay attention.
I don't suffer from insanity, I enjoy every minute of it.
Actually, you just click the build button with the little white arrow. Typing is archaic.
-Ben
Err wouldn't that be ../configure ; make glass ; make frame ; make windows
?
thousands of chineese software developers commited a mass suicide after been exposed to the millions of lines of Windows source code. Apparently nobody warned them about the dangers of staring in the soul of the devil.
You can't handle the truth.
as long as you trust make, and take the time to verify configure, and you check all the programms called from here.
Remember the article about the compiler who was specially adapted to introduce backdoor in login, which was not visible in the source of the compiler, cause the compiler added it to itself when it was self compiling?
You see, being exposed to Windows source code gives programmers a killer headache, and after having seen it, they'll never be able to write a secure piece of code themselves.
He must be an optimist.
MSN is reporting a story on Opra attaining billionaire status, but I thought one side note was hillarious:
"Gates' personal wealth, much of it in company stock, has diminished by 60 percent since April 1998, when it briefly reached $100 billion. His worst year was 1999, when it plunged by a third as the government pursued an antitrust case against Microsoft. Forbes notes he is also the world's biggest giver, donating $1 billion annually to charity, largely to vaccine research."
With all the bugs and viruses his software is subject to, I was hoping he was putting more than that into vaccine research!
Acts of massive stupidity are almost never covered by warranty. --me.
All MS need to do is take out the us govt. approved spy code for the examination. The Chinese won't be compiling and shipping their own versions of windows will they? Or is MS now employing Stallman/
Windows with improved support for USB (Ultra Straggly Beard)
Hands up everyone who refuses to obey orders.
Are there two countries called China, or is the requirement that intellectual property has zero practical protection?
Why they'll assimilate them of course.
wonder how long it will be before they find that "scam" going on between intel, the memory manufacturers, and microsoft:
/* 32MB */ /* 96MB */ /* 128MB */ /* 256MB */
... ... etc.
if (version == NT ) {
delay_loop_count = 100;
big_array_bytes = 32000000;
}
else if (version == W2K) {
delay_loop_count = 1000;
big_array_bytes = 96000000;
}
else if (version == XP) {
delay_loop_count = 10000;
big_array_bytes = 128000000;
}
else if (version == DOTNET) {
delay_loop count = 100000;
big_array_bytes = 256000000;
}
waste_space_array = alloc( big_array_bytes );
random_fill( waste_space_array);
mount_C_filesystem();
sleep( delay_loop_count );
init_gui();
sleep( delay_loop_count );
get_user_command();
sleep( delay_loop_count );
Every version seems to take more and more memory, but seems to provide less and less increase in functionality, and is slow enough on older hardware to *force* an upgrade. There *must* be a reason! THE TRUTH IS OUT THERE!
Seriously.. does anyone out there *really* need a 3GHZ machine to run Office and browse the web?? I mean *seriously*. My "new" desktop is a 1ghz box I snagged free from work, which I'm going to put my *legal* copy of W2K on, and then make my current 550Mhz box *another* free-unix box (NetBSD, actually).
Wow, you are referring to Microsoft as M$. I wish I had thought of that. How clever of you.
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