Microsoft signs source code browsing agreement with China

People's Daily Online ^ | September 27, 2003 | Lee Jia

[Reeses]

Our government should stop using Microsoft software immediately. This is a major threat to national security.

[shadowman99]

I guess we won't be seeing the MS trolls of this thread. They conveniently ignore MS bad news. MS helping the commies

SHOCK!

At least with Linux it's passive - anybody can pick up the source at do what they will. But MS is Actively helping the Reds!!!

[HAL9000]

I guess we won't be seeing the MS trolls of this thread.

We may not be seeing them, but they are out there - trying to get this article deleted. They are ashamed of the truth: Microsoft will bend over backwards to kowtow to the Chinese Communist government while they screw the customers in the U.S.

[eno_]

They are TRYING to counter the obvious fact that if your government is a serious intelligence target for the U.S. government, you want to verify the absence of back doors in your software.

Unfortunately for Micrsoft, the way it works is like this: Our givernment leans on Microsoft to tell intelligence and LEAs about vulns BEFORE anyone else knows so that they can be exploited in foreign (and domestic) spying. So the Chinese and Russians can stare at miserable source code until they go blind and it will not change the security, or lack of it, in using a Microsoft product.

If you don't want to be snooped, use open source systems. That isn't the whole solution, but it is a critical part of the solution.

[gore3000]

Wonder if MS is going to fix any problems that all these agreements find or whether they will leave them unchanged as they have done many times until public furor forced them to do some real programming.

Besides this kowtowing to the commies, it shows that MS has been forced to do many times what it had never done before - open up the code for examination by outsiders. In fact, they have kept the code so secret that even their own programmers are only allowed to know bits and pieces of it.

[joesnuffy]

Once upon a time in America
this was called treason.....
my how things have changed
Hey Joe McCarthy...guess you werent paranoid...
enough

[CodeMonkey]

Ever notice how people like Ann Coulter who think that ol' Joe was a hero and that Bush's critics are traitors are eerily silent on saudi-funded Wahabism in the US's Islamic schools and mosques? Back in the day that would have been like the Soviet KGB openly recruiting on college campuses without any interference....

[ShadowAce]

Hmm. So much for the "1 hour in a room full of lawyers and no recording devices."

I'm moving to a new laptop and my ping list hasn't made it over yet. If there's someone you think would be interested, let them know.

[Coral Snake]

So the great closed source "patriots" that Golden Eagle, Bush2000, and TheEngineer support so much are helping the

COMMIES!!!, CSBITAIALMAO!!!

and this streight from the COMMIES' own "people's newspaper no less.

[rdb3]

The Penguin Ping.

Wanna be Penguified? Just holla!

Got root?

[per loin]

Soon the Chinese software company, Commisoft, will release their new operating system, Doorways PX. Because Doorways PX will appear to be a complete ripoff of Windows XP, Microsoft will be very upset, but as Commisoft will only licence Doorways PX with back-engineering strictly forbidden, Microsoft will not be able to do a thing about it.

[TechJunkYard]

Prof. Wu Shizhong, director of the Center, said that it was too early to say whether Microsoft's operating system is safe or not.

LMAO!

[TechJunkYard]

IIRC, they also get to modify, so they can create their own "distro" if they want.

Who is the USA-hating lib who's in charge of this project?

[tubavil]

It's completely safe!

Communist China has no problem with our government and and business sector running it.

[tubavil]

The bottom line is China is such a huge market ms will do whatever it takes to get their dollars.

After the commies have learned everything they can about 'blows, they will adopt a secure platform.

[Bush2000]

Hmm. So much for the "1 hour in a room full of lawyers and no recording devices."

This article only tells half the story. The other half is that the Chinese won't merely be handed a disc with the source code. Browsing doesn't mean copying. Browsing doesn't mean there won't be supervision by Microsort. Likewise, there are portions of the Windows code that aren't even available to anyone -- even under the Shared Source Initiative. But you'd never know that, based on posts from the usual trolls...

[Bush2000]

So the great closed source "patriots" that Golden Eagle, Bush2000, and TheEngineer support so much are helping the COMMIES!!!

Uhhhhh, rrrrrrright, Sybil. /SARCASM

MS is "helping" them by charging them for software, thus moving Chinese dollars to the United States.