[luau] NEWS: Microsoft Lobbies Hard Against Free Software at Pentagon

Warren Togami warren at togami.com
Thu May 23 17:05:01 PDT 2002


http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A60050-2002May22.html

This Washington Post article talks about Microsoft aggressively lobbying
the Pentagon to seize their growing usage of Open Source Software citing
"security and intellectual property" concerns.

I find this very ironic considering only a few days ago, one of MS's top
executives Jim Allchin testified under oath that forcing MS to open
source and API's would be of severe National Security risk because
portions of their own code are "so flawed it could not be safely
disclosed".

Read about Jim Allchin's testimony in this earlier LUAU post:
http://videl.ics.hawaii.edu/pipermail/luau/2002-May/008001.html

Warren Togami
warren at togami.com





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