[briandear]

Since Microsoft and Apple spend hundreds of millions developing that code. To let a country 'inspect' it is to put valuable intellectual property at risk. Would you trust China to inspect your source code for a project you spent millions developing a unique technology? Should Boeing open source their aircraft wing designs? To suggest such is ludicrous. Do you really want governments with access to everyone's source code?

[e12e]

I'm not sure I'd want to allow China to sell a "secure operating system" to government agencies - and not be able to demand source code access as part of the bidding process.

I'm not sure I'd want a US company to supply hardware/OS to schools, and not be able to stipulate source code availability in the contract.

I'm not sure if this is the kind of things that this makes illegal -- but I wouldn't be surprised if it is.