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Lets turn this argument around.
The US allows exports of proprietary software with backdoors in it so the NSA/CIA/FBI/Military can spy on foriegn nations.
Since the app is closed source/proprietary the receiving nation would not be able to review the code for any holes that the US could exploit to spy on them..

But in regards to your question: I would say they couldnt do much.. We would have the source code as well. Considering it is Open Source.
If the Government controlled it, it would cease to be "open".
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Lets turn this argument around.  ickusslime@... | 03/18/05
Oh - here is a lovely thought for a Friday  quietLee | 03/18/05
Re: lovely thought  George Mitchell | 03/18/05
MS is irrelevant to issue  quietLee | 03/18/05
Another whiner  bystander_z | 03/18/05
Is Linux our to control?  Laff | 03/18/05
Learn your history  quietLee | 03/18/05
I was thinking that Linux is already out there and  Laff | 03/18/05
I feel fine..  Patrick Jones | 03/18/05
How to build a nuke was published by USPTO for years  hipparchus2000 | 03/19/05
Re: Devil's advocate  rpmyers1 | 03/18/05
This isn't Harvard  george_ou | 03/18/05
Yeah but....  quietLee | 03/18/05
Consequences?  bystander_z | 03/18/05
Another what if scenerio  osreinstall | 03/18/05
citizens of devilish regimes could also use GPL software 2 defeat regimes  hipparchus2000 | 03/19/05
exactly  JasonL31 | 03/19/05
Here's the fallacy.  Linux_Developer | 03/19/05
better then a government lettin goff a abusive  JasonL31 | 03/19/05
Not at all  bixbyru@... | 03/20/05
Not at all  bixbyru@... | 03/20/05
I don't want to give MS or Shrubya any ideas...  bixbyru@... | 03/20/05

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