----- Original Message -----
Sent: Friday, February 28, 2003 12:48
PM
Subject: RE: Purely for your
amusement
hmmm...
ok, let's give one of the largest known hacking/cracking/virii
producing countries in the world, the source code to the most common desktop
in the world for 'security' purposes?
Bill has got be to smokin' something...
Any bets on how long it will take the source code to make it
on the net?
-----Original Message-----
From:
Boivin, Patrice J [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, February 28, 2003 9:19 AM
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
Subject: RE: Purely for your amusement
Excerpt from
http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/business/columnists/gmsv/5286
438.htm
Microsoft committed to providing Chinese government with
information
necessary to buy Microsoft products: The
Chinese government will soon be
able to view the
source code for the Windows operating system, now that it
has agreed to participate in Microsoft's Government Security Program
(GSP)
-- a program designed to assuage concerns about
the security of the OS by
allowing governments to
review its underlying source code. "We are committed
to providing the Chinese government with information that will help
them
deploy and maintain secure computing
infrastructures," said Microsoft
Chairman Bill Gates
who was in Beijing today to announce the pact. "We see
this agreement as a significant step forward in Microsoft's relations
with
the Chinese government." Gates can only hope.
After all, the Chinese
government has long been quite
vocal about its preference for Linux, even
going so
far as to develop its own version of the operating system, dubbed
Red Flag Linux, that it says will eventually replace Windows
and Unix on all
of its government PCs and servers.
Pat.
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