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Microsoft To Share Office Source Code

Posted by Hemos on Monday September 20, 2004 @12:00AM from the aftershocks-to-ensue dept.

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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Candidate Goverment by matthewg42 · 2004-09-20 00:30 · Score: 0, Offtopic

I vote that the Principality of Sealand gets a look!
OT, but by stealth.c · 2004-09-20 00:52 · Score: 0, Offtopic

I'd have to guess that it isn't the USA, but rather Saudi Arabia.

And whoever else sells a lot of oil to the USA.

The bludgeoning foreign policy (and horrific "mistakes" that led to 9/11) of the USA can mostly be traced to trying to satisfy oil-bearing nations like the Saudis. The United States of America is so dependent on oil that it'll do almsot anything with its vast military-industrial-media power in order to satisfy its need.

The USA might be the biggest powerhouse, but it is being led around by the nose by the interests of a certain few who have never set foot in the Americas.