What "certain circumstances"? If by that you mean "any circumstances" you would be correct. Otherwise, your trying to spin the Microsoft action of giving the Chinese Communist government complete and total access of 97% of Windows source code.
Unfortunate, indeed, but if you're outraged about that, I can only imagine the hysterical frenzy you're going to throw yourself into when you find out there's something called "open source" where everybody over there gets 100% of it, to do whatever they want to with it, not just a select few viewing it.
Which is exactly as it was designed to be. Unlike Microsoft who despises open source, yet lets the Chinese Communist government have their source code, even while American businesses that rely on Microsoft Windows for their data integrity cannot have the very same access to 97% of Windows source code to to check for security issues.
What about American business interests? Don't they have at least as much of a right to verify Windows source code as the Chinese Communists?
Open Source software gives American, Chinese and any other countries a level playing field. No one country's businesses have an edge over another. But Microsoft's actions have given the Chinese Communists an edge over American businesses.
What you are saying is that Chinese business interests are more important than American business interests, provided that it puts money in Microsoft coffers.
Traitor.
Wrong again, you're obviously trying to cover up the transfers of open source which are complete and total transfers. Not everyone in the chicom government has access to view portions of the MS code, only those specifically allowed to have access under specific agreement and circumstances.
But, of course, anyone in the chicom government can get a free copy of Linux from Red Hat, and resell it, rename it, whatever they want to do with it. They don't have to contact Microsoft first, ask permission, setup access, they just go straight to the Red Hat servers and start downloading away. If they eat up all of Red Hat's bandwidth in the process, Red Hat will faithfully add more servers for them, no questions asked.
If you really cared about technology transfers to the Chicoms, you'd start with the worst offenders. Obviously not part of your agenda.