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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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.