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Re:What the CIA WikiLeaks Dump Tells Us: Encryption Works by xapata on Saturday March 11, 2017 @11:34AM (#13845971)
In that sense, no one is independent. We've all got friends and family, or at least people we know. By definition, if you've heard of someone else's software, that person had a social network by which they distributed the software to you.
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Re:What the CIA WikiLeaks Dump Tells Us: Encryption Works by holri on Saturday March 11, 2017 @02:14PM (#13846692)
Social dependency is not binary. Developers in a company a much more dependent from each other and the boss, than reviewers of free software.
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Re:What the CIA WikiLeaks Dump Tells Us: Encryption Works by xapata on Saturday March 11, 2017 @03:52PM (#13847188)
Very true. Maybe I misread your previous comment as being more binary than you intended.

Keep in mind that reviewers of free software are also often employees and may have some agenda beyond pure altruism, even if the software isn't copyright of the employer. Open source is big business these days.

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Re:What the CIA WikiLeaks Dump Tells Us: Encryption Works by holri on Sunday March 12, 2017 @07:29AM (#13850251)
Maybe Open Source is big business, but not free software.
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Re:What the CIA WikiLeaks Dump Tells Us: Encryption Works by xapata on Sunday March 12, 2017 @11:04AM (#13850953)
It all is. The person contributing to gcc needs to make money somehow.

Well, at least it could be considered tainted by self-interest if you're paranoid. My point was that commercial interest does not prevent quality/security.

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