Microsoft To Share Office Source Code

I_Love_Pocky! writes "According to this article, Microsoft is going to give its source code for Office 2003 to more than 30 different world governments. The purpose? So they can inspect the code for security flaws."

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[Progman3K]

I thought Microsoft was lobbying aggresively AGAINST open-source.
They claim it stifles economic growth and prevents innovation...

How can anyone trust a company like this?

Liars.

I'll NEVER buy another Microsoft product.

AGAIN: Microsoft gives source to infowar depts.

[Ungrounded Lightning]

Once again, Microsoft gives the source of one of its major components to the foreign intelligence and information warfare departments of 30 foreign governments, including several whose interests are at odds with the US.

Tinfoil hat? THINK about it. What department in the US has the talent and infrastructure to examine software for security problems, and is charged with, among other things, protecting the US information infrastructure? (drumroll ...) The NSA!

They had to SIGN AN AGREEMENT? Since WHEN do the spooks play by the rules? (Remember when the CIA stole that little company's banking application, hotwired it with spyware, undersold it into all the major banks in the world, used the backdoor to trace dictators' (and who knows who else's) funds, and used soverign immunity to kill the suit from the original author?)

Is it just a coincidence that, soon after the source code for the OS was given to the same groups we began to experience a series of worms installing spam forwarders, and keyboard loggers collecting account data for phishing scams, apparently run by the Russian mob (composed mainly of former members of the Red Army)?

Seems to me that Microsoft is just ASKING for a charge of treason, come the next major world conflict.