emptybody's Journal: Microsoft Sells Secrests to Russia

While we have all been looking the other way, Microsoft has sold their secrets to Russia. As reported by Reuters in this Yahoo article, Russia will be the first to see some source code for Windows. Please hold off the 'In Soviet Russia' jokes.

"Russia's chief demand was to get access to Microsoft's full code, with no omissions," said Yevgeny Karavayeshnikov, head of the FAPSI state intelligence and surveillance agency, which had authorized the agreement on behalf of the Russian government.

2003-01-20 18:08:17 Microsoft Sells Secrests to Russia (articles,microsoft) (rejected)