Microsoft's Government Security Program (GSP)

  Here is another angle on MS's GSP that is worthy of investigating. Is
this another dangerous government boondoggle?  I really hope that the 
Canadian Government will avoid this legal trap.

http://weblog.flora.ca/article.php3?story_id=341

    Many publications have started to write about Microsoft's Government 
    Security Program (GSP), but with very little details. What source
    license source code comes with is more important than the availability
    of source code. As I am writing in an early draft article on software
    licensing, source code under non-disclosure agreement (NDA) is the
    opposite of Free/Libre and Open Source Software. Source under NDA is
    also 'more proprietary' and involves considerably more legal risk than
    closed-source software.

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 Russell McOrmond, Internet Consultant: <http://www.flora.ca/>
 Any 'hardware assist' for communications, whether it be eye-glasses, 
 VCR's, or personal computers, must be under the control of the citizen 
 and not a third party.   -- http://www.flora.ca/russell/

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