A google search gives this link:
http://news.com.com/2100-1001-950083.html
Its the usual nonsense. Companies complaining "that providing the
fruits of research to everyone, not just U.S. companies, is hurting
American business". Accusations that "open-source software may offer
target for terrorists". Microsoft as usual has not commented directly
on this issue. They just play their dirty politics. Unfortunately, the
consequence of this issue is that SE Linux may be the NSA's last
direct contribution to open-source security.
Interesting. The funny thing is that when IBM decided to release some
of the DES source code way back the NSA was pretty annoyed as well. No
one expected them to do a turn around and come up with SELinux but
they did :-)
Oh yeah and the "open-source software may offer target for terrorists"
is stated by the Alexis de Tocqueville Institution which is well
renowned for biased statements. In fact they had accused Linus of
plagarism which was complete crap and promptly disproven. It was
established then the Alexis de Tocqueville Institution was being
funded my M$. Moreover the statement ``while the software giant does
fund the institution, it doesn't fund any specific research" is pretty
dubious :-)
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Alexis_de_Tocqueville_Institution
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexis_de_Tocqueville_Institution
Regards,
- vihan
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