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

Joe Linux joelinux at earthlink.net
Wed May 22 02:35:00 PDT 2002


I'm more worried about getting killed by an oversized gas guzzling SUV 
than an economical Ford Pinto.

Warren Togami wrote:

>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
>Allchin: Disclosure May Endanger U.S.
>
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