Question:

Opening source code. Then what, go to the local store and buy a
precompiled Windows binary?

What these governments should do is see the code and compile Windows
from the code that they see.

What guarantees are there that the binary you buy from stores were
compiled from the source code you see?

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Lyndon Tiu


Quoting DENNIS WILLIAMS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:

> I find it interesting that some foreign countries like China and
> Russia have
> expressed interest in Linux for just this reason. They realized
> that maybe
> someday the CIA could bury some code to send information back to
> itself. In
> response, Microsoft is opening some of their source code to
> selected foreign
> nations. This article isn't going to help their suspicions :-0
> 
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> http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/29519.html
> 
> Hmmmmm
> 
> Mark
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