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Re:Making Open Source software safer and more secure by HWR_14 on Thursday January 13, 2022 @04:44PM (#29927297)
This isn't something unique by Google. It's Google's PR announcement they went to the White House leaders in industry, all talking about open-source security. The list of attendees included representatives from Akamai, Amazon, Apache Software Foundation, Apple, Cloudflare, Facebook/Meta, GitHub, Google, IBM, Linux Open Source Foundation, Microsoft, Oracle, RedHat and VMWare
Re:Making Open Source software safer and more secure by WhyNotHugo on Thursday January 13, 2022 @05:29PM (#29927856)
The only organisation there which really focuses on open source software is Apache.

All the rest specialise in proprietary software, and only do open source software as a side thing. They represent open source as much as the gas industry represents renewable energies.

Re:Making Open Source software safer and more secure by xxpor on Thursday January 13, 2022 @05:33PM (#29927910)
They represent the risk. Apache may write the software, but the commercial companies are the ones that actually deploy it and touch sensitive data. Also, IBM owns Red Hat so I don't really agree with the premise.
Re:Making Open Source software safer and more secure by Ericson2314 on Thursday January 13, 2022 @11:19PM (#29930551)
Ideally the white house should meet separately with the "consumers" on one hand, and the producers like Apache and Red Hat on the other.

Also, the government should get way more in-house expertise. I am a firm believe in an all-capable administrative state which should be able to do just about anything in the economy, even if it chooses not to or can't do all at once. The government needs way more in-house programmers doing various things, and those civil servants should be in these meetings so it's not just the vultures tricking the politicians.

In general, in-house expertise should be a bulwork aginst regulatory capture. E.g. If HHS/FDA/NSF did its own drug development not just drug research the incentives would be very very different.

Re:Making Open Source software safer and more secure by HWR_14 on Thursday January 13, 2022 @07:40PM (#29929098)
Is the Linux Open Source Foundation just a misnomer then? And GitHub actually has a vested interest in open source working and working well.
Re:Making Open Source software safer and more secure by rg111 on Friday January 14, 2022 @06:19AM (#29933099)
> really focuses

I disagree. ML and DL have become core parts of Meta and Google, both. And both of them do it very openly.

Meta and Google regularly contribute to open research in AI and all their tools are open source.