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Unpatriotic Microsoft liars

So on the one hand, MIcrosoft's Jim Allchin stood up in court and said, under oath, that it simply was not possible to allow people to see Microsoft WIndows court. See

Extract: "A senior Microsoft Corp. executive told a federal court last week that sharing information with competitors could damage national security and even threaten the U.S. war effort in Afghanistan. He later acknowledged that some Microsoft code was so flawed it could not be safely disclosed.

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The bold statements and candid admissions were part of Jim Allchin's testimony during two days in court here before Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly, who is hearing the case of nine states and the District of Columbia seeking stricter penalties for Microsoft's antitrust behavior.

Allchin, group vice president for platforms at Microsoft, was the final executive lined up to defend the Redmond, Wash., software developer. Like company Chairman and Chief Software Architect Bill Gates before him, Allchin highlighted the security problems he foresaw that could result from technical information disclosure requirements sought by the nonsettling states.

"It is no exaggeration to say that the national security is also implicated by the efforts of hackers to break into computing networks," Allchin testified. "Computers, including many running Windows operating systems, are used throughout the United States Department of Defense and by the armed forces of the United States in Afghanistan and elsewhere."

Unlike the states' proposed remedy, the federal settlement proposal that Microsoft and the Department of Justice agreed to in November contains a carve-out that permits Microsoft to withhold API and protocol disclosures if such disclosures would compromise security. The provision is designed to address hackers, viruses and piracy, according to Allchin"


On the other hand, any country hostile to the US can now see this code which will compromise US national security because it is so flawed.

Evidently Allchin got on the stand then lied through his teeth in order to confound the motion for API disclosure. In the UK he would have been jailed for this, it's called perjury.

SO, Microsofties, which is it?

a) Allchin lied under oath, and is another shining example of Microsoft's "the law doesn't apply to us"

or

b) Allchin and Microsoft WILL put Microsoft profit above US national security.

What a company! You all must be very proud.

Posted by: jellyclock   Posted on: 01/19/04 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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