Wednesday, October 01, 2003
Microsoft's treasonous innovations
Hey, so what if Microsoft can't produce interesting technology? They've got the market cornered on new ways to betray one's country!
I've blogged on this before: see this post from February 2003.
The issue -- which everyone seems to be ignoring -- is back in the news. A Slashdot post directed me to this article on C|Net. China has set up a lab to browse through Microsoft's Windows source code. Given that, as Jim Allchin, Microsoft's Group Vice President for Platforms, has said, "It is no exaggeration to say that the national security is also implicated by the efforts of hackers to break into computing networks. Computers, including many running Windows operating systems, are used throughout the United States Department of Defense and by the armed forces of the United States in Afghanistan and elsewhere." Or, as eWeek put it, "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."
So, what Sun, HP, Oracle, etc. cannot be permitted to see because of the threat to national security can be freely given to communist China.
Someone please explain to me how this makes sense.
posted by vepxistqaosani 10:15 AM
