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Created a culture that accepts this mechanism so it's a real challenge to create alternatives that i do not even. alternatives to microsoft have been around for a long time they're based on a fundamentally different principle called open source. in contrast to the proprietary software sold by microsoft and other companies open source software uses a source code that's publicly available. that's why hundreds of thousands of programmers around the world can improve it expand on it and fix bugs. the collective work carried out by this swarm of programmers identifies and closes security gaps and e...

Semantic came across a secret document from the german office for information security the b.s.i. according to the documents it's experts are also suspicious of microsoft as early as twenty fourteen before the current contract with microsoft was concluded they issued forty six requests for the company to fix security gaps in its software and to compel the company to meet its obligations to german governmental and public agencies. but wait till you see what's written on page twenty inquiries from the site of microsoft we asked the ministry of the interior about this in the beer size catalogue o...

Microsoft have been around for a long time they're based on a fundamentally different principle called open source. in contrast to the proprietary software sold by microsoft and other companies open source software uses a source code that's publicly available. that's why hundreds of thousands of programmers around the world can improve it expand on it and fix bugs. the collective work carried out by this swarm of programmers identifies and closes security gaps and efficiently produces state of the art software including the world's most widely used operating systems linux and android unlike mi...

Proprietary business model only the manufacturer is able to change improve correct and fix security gaps in the software for better or worse the users are completely at the mercy of the manufacturer. the data belonging to every citizen from tax returns to parking fines flows through the enormous data centers maintained by our governments. we pay a visit to one of the high security server farms in hamburg we're not permitted to reveal its location let alone film it from the outside but all its security arrangements offer little protection against microsoft's vulnerabilities. so this is just one...

Specialist can understand this source code but the computers don't understand source code it has to be transformed into binary machine code which only computers can read and understand. this is the source code for the command display hello world one of the first things you might learn in your first programming class. and this is what the command looks like translated into machine code. microsoft only makes the machine code available to its customers but we can't decipher it ourselves microsoft keeps its source code a secret and to protect itself from copycats. this is what's called the proprie...