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Re: MS to publish source code of windows

From: Steve Richter <srichter@autocoder.com>
> I have read with interest what you have said in the past that it is the
> strength of the design and encryption routines that secure a system and not
> the secrecy of its internal workings.   But I think that asking for the
> security interface to be published would push whatever fence sitters there
> are away from the open source position.
>

you are probably correct. Maybe one should go in little steps, but
it'll be like pulling teeth and I don't think it will happen. Now, IBM,
please prove me wrong.

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