an amusing followup to that recent thread on microsoft and bri... uh, donations in india, a recent link at linuxtoday.com describes how microsoft is negotiating to (take a deep breath here) *share* the source code to windows with government officials in india.
of course, this "sharing" will be done in a very restricted way, with only select government agencies, no doubt in aid of swaying that country from its inexorable march to linux. this strategy does inspire some interesting questions, though, such as -- if microsoft has, for years, claimed that open source code is inherently less secure, how can they legitimately defend sharing theirs more freely? even more of an issue is that, what with the current hysteria over terrorism and national security, how can MS defend sharing its precious code with government officials *in* *another* *country*??? the mind reels. rday Robert P. J. Day, RHCE, RHCI Eno River Technologies, Waterloo, Ontario Unix, Linux and Open Source corporate training http://www.linux-migration.org -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
