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by traceroute66 1545 days ago
> I know they've made it available to some universities and large customers also can get access.

And, IIRC, infamously the Chinese government too, because they made it a pre-condition of them purchasing Microsoft licenses that they must have source code visibility.
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karteum 1545 days ago
"Infamously" ?

Well, there is for sure a lot to criticize about the CN government, but this precondition seems to me very natural (the OS is a very natural place for possible backdoors, otherwise...)

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ComradePhil 1545 days ago
No government should buy closed source anything for obvious reasons.
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bjarneh 1545 days ago
> because they made it a pre-condition of them purchasing Microsoft licenses that they must have source code visibility.

Even the communist party in China is more up to date then my own government

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