I was being ironic. NSA has embraced Linux I believe.
John
At 05:05 PM 3/18/01, you wrote:
> > I would add that Microsoft could not possibly have the arrogance to
>Most likely they would not care whether someone sees this
>as being arrogant. If it fits in with their overall
>business strategy they will show the source to anyone
>who wants to see it.
>
>I read the whole story like this: The NSA has gotten MS to
>"show them the code". This is not so unreasonable to assume
>since even MS itself claims that that would be possible under
>certain circumstances (large, paying customer, academic
>interest, etc.). Now, about the backdoors that is another
>matter. The NSA probably did not put in backdoors with MS
>knowing about it - and how would MS not know about it
>if the NSA did ? But since they do have access to the
>source they have the advantage of easily finding exploitable
>weaknesses. On the other hand there are are several "known"
>("been in the news", that is) instances of US companies
>being in the possession of secrets of European companies
>(notice how I don't blame someone specifically) and thus
>gaining competitive advantages.
>
> > do such a thing and that the Germans are merely envious and paranoid.
>:-)) Certainly our Government ain't envious.
>Paranoid (Army and Foreign Affairs Office) ? Maybe.
>Envious ? Huh ? Why ?
>
>Regards,
>Karsten
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