Date: Wed, 22 May 2002 01:38:08 +0200 From: Brad Knowles <brad.knowles@skynet.be> To: FreeBSD Chat Mailing List <freebsd-chat@freebsd.org> Subject: /.: Microsoft Cites National Security to Justify Closed Source Message-ID: <p05111718b910898a5694@[10.0.1.4]>
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Folks, Found this from <http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/05/20/2124248&mode=thread&tid=109>: MS Cites National Security to Justify Closed Source Microsoft | Posted by timothy on Mon 20 May 10:34PM from the so-bad-we-can't-display-it dept. guacamolefoo writes: "It was recently reported in eWeek that "A senior Microsoft Corp. executive told a federal court last week that sharing information with competitors could damage national security and even threaten the U.S. war effort in Afghanistan. He later acknowledged that some Microsoft code was so flawed it could not be safely disclosed." (Emphasis added.) The follow up from Microsoft is even better: As a result of the flaws, Microsoft has asked the court to allow a "national security" carve-out from the requirement that any code or API's be made public. Microsoft has therefore taken the position that their code is so bad that it must kept secret to keep people from being killed by it. Windows - the Pinto of the 21st century." The story that they were linking to is at <http://www.eweek.com/article/0,3658,s%253D701%2526a%253D26875,00.asp>. Now, who else thinks that we should take this opportunity to file charges of high treason against Bill Gates, Paul Allen, and other senior members of Microsoft management, because through their actions "very grave harm to national security interests" would result if the source code were opened? Now, who else thinks that this is yet another ruse by Microsoft, and that what we should really try to do is catch them in their biggest and most blatent example of perjury, and catch them as they majorly shit their pants and do the biggest and fastest volte-face the world has ever seen, once the criminal charges are filed? -- Brad Knowles, <brad.knowles@skynet.be> "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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