Microsoft Not to Open Source Codes in China
Microsoft Corporation recently agreed to fully comply with an antitrust decision by the European Union (EU) in 2004, thus ending the three-year-long antimonopoly dispute between them.
Nevertheless, it is still unknown whether Microsoft would fulfill the obligations in the Chinese market. An insider remarked that China just passed the antitrust law and has not put it into effect officially, so it is impossible for the company to come up with a timetable for the disclosure of its source codes.
China Information Technology Security Certification Center (CITSCC) signed a new governmental security plan source code agreement with Microsoft on August 2, according to which CITSCC will be allowed to look over source codes of Microsoft products and platforms including Windows Vista so as to enhance the capacity of analyzing and evaluating the safety of the latter's products.
Asked about this, Hu Caiyong, general manager of Beijing Redflag CH2000 Software Co., Ltd., said that the EU judgment is completely different from the agreement signed between CITSCC and Microsoft. In the former, Microsoft is obliged to release its source codes to other software companies, but in the latter, it just makes a lofty stance, showing that its products do not have any technical "backdoor" and safety troubles. So the agreement is only a means of maintaining the relationship with Chinese government.
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