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> I know they've made it available to some universities and large customers also can get access. And, IIRC, infamously the Chinese government too, because they
by traceroute66 5y ago
> I know they've made it available to some universities and large customers also can get access.
And, IIRC, infamously the Chinese government too, because they made it a pre-condition of them purchasing Microsoft licenses that they must have source code visibility.
- bjarneh 5y ago> because they made it a pre-condition of them purchasing Microsoft licenses that they must have source code visibility. Even the communist party in China is more up to date then my own government
- karteum 5y ago"Infamously" ? Well, there is for sure a lot to criticize about the CN government, but this precondition seems to me very natural (the OS is a very natural place for possible backdoors, otherwise...)
- ComradePhil 5y agoNo government should buy closed source anything for obvious reasons.