[adam_az]

You said - "Dude, Redmond ain't mailing CDs to the ChiComs containing Windows source code. The ChiComs have to come to Redmond and sit in a room with Microsoft's attorneys if they want source code. Meanwhile, you OSS guys are shoveling free source code at the ChiComs as fast as your little sweatshops can crank it out..."

Answer this point.

Who cares if attorneys are in there, anyway? How can an attorney know what the chicoms are looking for in MS sourcecode? How can they stop them from using it to write exploits when they return to china?

If you can't or won't answer, at least be a mensch and admit it.

[Bush2000]

Who cares if attorneys are in there, anyway? How can an attorney know what the chicoms are looking for in MS sourcecode? How can they stop them from using it to write exploits when they return to china?

Whether or not the Chinese can see the source code in the presence of whoever says little about the security of the code. Security through obscurity doesn't work. There are plenty of ways to test the security of code without seeing the source code (fuzzing, etc). But that's kind of beside the point, anyway. What concerns me the most is handing over source code to the Chinese and letting them deploy it without paying a single cent for it. Code is machinery. It has intrinsic value. Anyone that contributes code to the Chinese (and North Koreans, as well) is helping to prop up a corrupt, totalitarian regime that would like nothing better than to crush the United States.