[Incorrigible]

Oye!  Again with the source code.

For the nth time, Microsoft created a program that allows ANY government to view certain source code under strict conditions.  Yes the ChiComs took entered into that program.

Code added to Open Source via GNU can also be viewed by the ChiComs.  Thus we're all Commies.

[Bush2000]

For the nth time, Microsoft created a program that allows ANY government to view certain source code under strict conditions. Yes the ChiComs took entered into that program. Code added to Open Source via GNU can also be viewed by the ChiComs. Thus we're all Commies.

Uh, hold it a sec. There's a big difference here. The Chinese don't get the Windows source code on a disk. They have to sit in a room with Microsoft lawyers in Redmond. The ChiComs can't compile it. They can't modify it.

But, with GNU source code, the Commies can do whatever the hell they want. Compile it. Modify it. Redistribute it. Mail it to their Commie grandmothers. Whatever.

And that's a helluva big difference.

[Golden Eagle]

Microsoft created a program that allows ANY government to view certain source code under strict conditions

Not correct, "Tier 4" countries (Cuba, Iran, Iraq, Libya, North Korea, Sudan, and Syria) are absolutely excluded. You know, basically the same ones that all use their free copies of Linux as their official O/S, all legal and fully endorsed by the GNU fanatics.