“We will store backup copies of our code in a secure repository in Switzerland, and we will provide our European partners with the legal rights needed to access and use this code if needed for this purpose.”
If Microsoft is going to actually risk giving access to their source code then they’re really scared!
If Microsoft is going to actually risk giving access to their source code then they’re really scared!
And maybe they figure EU leaders aren’t smart enough to ask for reproducible builds.
That’s SOP for government contracts. The US government, and others, have had access in the past. NDA blah blah blah.
It sounds like this would be expanding that to a lot more commercial customers, though?
Pretty sure that they already shared it with copilot, so I’m guessing that it’s only a matter of time until everyone has a copy…