From owner-freebsd-chat Tue May 21 19:55:45 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mailsrv.otenet.gr (mailsrv.otenet.gr [195.170.0.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A6F4737B414 for ; Tue, 21 May 2002 19:55:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from hades.hell.gr (patr530-a006.otenet.gr [212.205.215.6]) by mailsrv.otenet.gr (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g4M2tdZQ020194; Wed, 22 May 2002 05:55:39 +0300 (EEST) Received: from hades.hell.gr (hades [127.0.0.1]) by hades.hell.gr (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g4M2tcM8000566; Wed, 22 May 2002 05:55:38 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: (from charon@localhost) by hades.hell.gr (8.12.3/8.12.3/Submit) id g4M2tZ4u000565; Wed, 22 May 2002 05:55:35 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Date: Wed, 22 May 2002 05:55:34 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas To: Brad Knowles Cc: FreeBSD Chat Mailing List Subject: Re: /.: Microsoft Cites National Security to Justify Closed Source Message-ID: <20020522025534.GB386@hades.hell.gr> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.99i Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 2002-05-22 01:38, Brad Knowles wrote: > 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.) So why not fix the code, instead of using it as an excuse for keeping things secret, especially when a court asks about it? ;) Sounds like a very silly excuse to me. -- Giorgos Keramidas - http://www.FreeBSD.org keramida@FreeBSD.org - The Power to Serve To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message