China Prepares To Examine MS Windows Code

Stargoat writes "CNet reports that China is looking into MS's source code for Windows. They are looking both to increase security as well as perhaps create a Chinese version of Linux. Or are they perhaps concerned with rumors of deliberate holes left in the software for the NSA to exploit?" Here's an earlier Slashdot post about the Microsoft-China agreement.

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um, for what?

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Why do tey eaven chose Windows??? I think they are smart enough to just use Linux - realy, jsut because windows costs 666 billion dollars to view one line of code dosent mean that its good.

Re:Would You Trust a Chinese OS?

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>> Didn't the American army killed a load of their students?


Sorry, no. (Nice grammer, too. Builds confidence in you,eh.)

Just in case you're alluding to the shootings at Kent State, it wasn't a "load" of students (4) and it wasn't the "Army" (it was the National Guard, not exactly the same thing.)

I had friends who were at the scene of the Kent shootings. It was a terrible thing, but in no way comparable to real atrocities committed elsewhere by thugs in power, and it in no way excuses people like you from equating imagined U.S. evil with real evil elsewhere and absolving yourselves of any resopnsiblity to do anything about it. You're just using your little pose of cynicism as an excuse for ethical laziness.

Re:Would You Trust a Chinese OS?

[Stargoat]

You're kidding, right? Because if you had spent time in China, you would know that they are still routinely slaughtering people. And if Time is reporting on it, then you can imagine the news they chose to suppress to keep the Chinese government happy and them in the country. It's like Iraq. The news agencies will not report the real news, in order to stay in the country, make a few bucks, and report the fake news.

Forced abortions, the relocation of Hans to Tibet to destroy that ethnic minority, the placing of nukes next to Taiwan, the egging on of North Korea, slavery and rape of women. These are China's improvements? What has changed since Mao? Nothing. The leaders still kill those who oppose them.

Deng Xiaoping was initially a revolutionary, and then a reactionary. But even that is hard to tell, since all he really wanted was more power. He was not "the greatest leader China since independence." The greatest Chinese leaders can be found on the isle of Taiwan.

But it's time we started calling them Taiwanese.