Government spooks helped Microsoft build Vista

[Rick Tomaschuk]

I appreciate the reply. I wasn't aware of that.

On Fri, 2007-01-12 at 15:55 -0500, James Knott wrote:
> Rick Tomaschuk wrote:
> > Looks like corruption is rife in the US with the NSA allegedly
> > supporting Microsoft. Looks like soon it will be anti-American to not
> > support Microsoft. (Bush-if you're not for us your against us) Now
> > Novell is in with Microsoft. I don't know why I bother to continue to
> > support Novell. http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=36814
> >
> > Does anyone have suggestions for long term IT strategies that won't land
> > me on a terrorist list? Is RedHat really the only large non-Microsoft
> > shop?
> > RickT
> >
> >   
> Please bear in mind that it is the responsibility of the NSA to ensure 
> software is secure for certain government uses.  Any software that's to 
> be used has to be certified. 
> The list includes Unix, Windows, Netware and many others.  Getting the 
> NSA to say your software is secure, is not selling out.  The NSA 
> produced a secure version of Red Hat a few years ago.
> 
> 
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