Figures...

Fear mongering worked for Bush. Bill and Steve make me sick. Did anybody notice Ballmer did not deny the back doors for the U.S. government to hack the Chinese, just that they "are overblown". The pair of 'em make my skin crawl.
 
P.S. This was posted with Klunqueror 3.2.1 in SuSE 9.1. I am going to throw a party the day I am totally independent of Micro$py!

One more thing, the Chinese are very smart. They probably found the holes but are not saying anything. You would not build a house out of Styrofoam in a hurricane zone would ya?

Indemnification from lawsuits is a big deal to many companies, especially when you develop a core application for an OS only to see that OS possibly taken away. This is happening to major companies all the time. Everybody likes to sue MS because they will probably pay off the suing party just to shut them up. Check out Novell, as that's been the only real income they have seen in a long time. With MS products, indemnification is not an issue, even if you have a million machines. Once the legal ownership of these stupid patents is done, you will see a giant leap forward in technology development for Linux (assuming that it works out). This is what large scale environments want to see, and these environments are what drives development.