Microsoft is going to let the Chinese government take a look at the source code to Windows. Take a guess on how much respect the Chinese have for anti-piracy/intellectual property laws. Yeah. So this basically means that the Windows source code will be freely available before too long. I give it 9 months (revised from my earlier estimate).

It's pretty sad when your software has a reputation for being so completely shoddy and insecure that you have to give foreign governments the source in order to get them to trust you. You'd think giving away source would also be bad for U.S. national security and help us lose wars, but I guess that's not the case (anymore).