[ Thanks to Paul A. Rombouts for this
link. ]
“China thinks Microsoft software contains secretly embedded code
that the United States government can manipulate at will. So, in
case of war between the two countries, a Pentagon official can hit
a switch and–presto!–cripple China’s computing
infrastructure.“A senior Microsoft executive, who often confers with the
Chinese (sorry, no names), told me this tale. I thought he was
joking…“But there’s a business case for paranoia–if you’re a
distributor of Linux, that is. China is already sweet on Linux. If
this debate turns to the issue of national security, you don’t need
the Amazing Kreskin to guess who’s going to come out on top…”