Oracle-L: RE: Purely for your amusement

From: gmei <gmei_at_incyte.com>
Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2003 10:30:43 -0800
Message-ID: <F001.0055D2A2.20030228103043@fatcity.com>

RE: Purely for your amusementI think the reason that Microsoft does this is to keep the control of OS market in China. MS has a huge market share in China, almost exclusively. I read a report a while ago saying some local goverment (Beijing Minucipal?) is concerned about OS security (who knows if MS's OS does not send something about the machine back to US?), which is understandable. So they are trying to use Linux as an alternative. MS must have sensed this "threat", that's why they signed agreement with Chinese Ministry of Education not long ago to provide hardware and software to set up 30 centers to train university students, and now to privide code to the governemnt for review. It is just a business decision. I expect we will see more and more governments request MS to do so.

Guang Mei
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From: root_at_fatcity.com [mailto:root_at_fatcity.com]On Behalf Of Nick Wagner Sent: Friday, February 28, 2003 12:49 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: RE: Purely for your amusement

hmmm...

ok, let's give one of the largest known hacking/cracking/virii producing countries in the world, the source code to the most common desktop in the world for 'security' purposes?

Bill has got be to smokin' something...

Any bets on how long it will take the source code to make it on the net?

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From: Boivin, Patrice J [mailto:BoivinP_at_mar.dfo-mpo.gc.ca] Sent: Friday, February 28, 2003 9:19 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: RE: Purely for your amusement

Excerpt from

http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/business/columnists/gmsv/5286 438.htm

Microsoft committed to providing Chinese government with information necessary to buy Microsoft products: The Chinese government will soon be able to view the source code for the Windows operating system, now that it has agreed to participate in Microsoft's Government Security Program (GSP)

a program designed to assuage concerns about the security of the OS by allowing governments to review its underlying source code. "We are committed to providing the Chinese government with information that will help them deploy and maintain secure computing infrastructures," said Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates who was in Beijing today to announce the pact. "We see this agreement as a significant step forward in Microsoft's relations with the Chinese government." Gates can only hope. After all, the Chinese government has long been quite vocal about its preference for Linux, even going so far as to develop its own version of the operating system, dubbed Red Flag Linux, that it says will eventually replace Windows and Unix on all of its government PCs and servers.

  Pat.
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