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Oooh, is Microsoft scared of little ol' Linux?

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voidmain:
I don't know about that. Looks like they are still working on this, at least as late as October 22:

http://www.nsa.gov/selinux/news.html

So I don't know if that news article was just a bunch of bunk or what... but if it were true I would have responded to Microsoft this way: "We would be happy to release an SEWindows under the GPL if you like."

But it just goes to show that Microsoft is more in favor of stifling technology advancements than enhancing them. It's all about the almightly dollar. I would say they will never get another dollar from me but as long as my government continues to use Windows I have no control where my tax dollars go.

[ December 02, 2002: Message edited by: void main ]

beltorak0:

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I would have responded to Microsoft this way: "We would be happy to release an SEWindows under the GPL if you like."

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Ha Ha Ha!!!  That would be kickass!!
I have often wished that the DoJ impose a short timeline for complience with the spirit and the letter of the ruling (say, one year) or force all current source code for the OS's be released under the GPL (from Win386 to Longhorn), as well as the compiler, so the GPL source can be compiled with the GPL compiler and the resultant binaries could be checked.

I did some reading at the NSA site; they release all modofications as source under the applicaple license -- GPL or BSD.  I'm not sure about the newly created apps though, but they sure seem into the spirit of a free (as in speach) development community.  The reason they chose Linux was it's wide base of developers.

NSA SELinux Faq

 
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Does NSA have plans to use it internally?

For obvious reasons, NSA does not comment on operational uses.

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lol.

-t.

-t.

jtpenrod:

quote:I saw that too. I couldn't help but be reminded of the couple of occasions that we were "audited" by Microsoft. I'm sorry but I just don't see how they can get away with shit like that. If it were my company I would have told them to get lost.
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I can. They get away with it because companies don't have the cojones to tell these M$ auditors to go to hell. Sure, you could do that, and then they'd come back with John Law in tow with a search warrant. Also, part of the deal is that if these auditors don't find any license violations, then M$ eats the cost of the audit. If they do find a violation, then the company pays for it. Have you ever read one of those EULAs? The damn things are full of lawyer-speak, will numb your mind faster than 500mG of thorazine, and are damn near incomprehensible. Not only that, but they are extremely slippery. M$ can change the terms of these things without your knowledge and concent.

Given that, what are the odds that these auditors could find some violation if they looked hard enough? Companies find it much easier to comply with the auditors, rather than sending them off to petition a judge to grant a warrant, and, in the process, pissing them off royally.

Of course, in the end, this type of behavior will  end up driving more and more companies to Linux.    
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