[luau] NEWS: MS Cites National Security to Justify Closed Source

[Warren Togami]

http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/05/20/2124248&mode=thread&tid=109

"It was recently reported in eWeek that "A senior Microsoft Corp. executive
told a federal court last week that sharing information with competitors
could damage national security and even threaten the U.S. war effort in
Afghanistan. He later acknowledged that some Microsoft code was so flawed it
could not be safely disclosed."
The follow up from Microsoft is even better: As a result of the flaws,
Microsoft has asked the court to allow a "national security" carve-out from
the requirement that any code or API's be made public. Microsoft has
therefore taken the position that their code is so bad that it must kept
secret to keep people from being killed by it. Windows - the Pinto of the
21st century."

http://www.eweek.com/article/0,3658,s%253D701%2526a%253D26875,00.asp
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