Microsoft opens the Windows 7 source code to the Russian successor to the KGB

[thewayne]

This really isn't new news, MS has been providing it to the British, Chinese, and something like 30 other countries. I'm sure the source code couldn't possibly fall in to black hat hacker's hands. [/sarcasm]

This has been going on for over 8 years. Microsoft has given out the source code to Windows 2000, XP, Server 2000, Server 2008 (presumably also Server 2003) and Office 10.

While I can appreciate a government wanting to know that their operating system doesn't contain back doors, I think I'll stick with a Unix-based OS where anyone can see the underlying source code.

http://www.zdnet.co.uk/news/security/2010/07/08/microsoft-opens-source-code-to-russian-secret-service-40089481/

http://tech.slashdot.org/story/10/07/09/0042238/Microsoft-Opens-Source-Code-To-KGBs-Successor-Agency

Comments

[silveradept]

So why not just open up the source for some of their OSes and let the community maintain, administer, and patch them? The Linux community would love to get their hands on that source, not just to make Linux better, but to make Windows better.