[graf008]

But can you clarify that the problem isn't open source, but free distribution (therefore included freeware and shareware software)? Programs such as Microsoft's Visual Studio Express, for example, would also be a problem since they are available for free and could be used by North Korea to write the software that powers their nuclear reactors.

[Golden Eagle]

You're now trying to claim the openness of the code isn't an additional level of availability? Time to face the fact that the Microsoft finger pointing just doesn't work in this context. Communist governments aren't philosophically tied with Microsoft's typical for sale/limited access model, you guys can keep throwing that red herring out there but it won't ever stick because MS philosophies will never equate to the giveaways of pure open source, and the only givaways you're getting from them are in response, not as an original intent.