Re:'Securing Open Source Software Act' introduced to US Senate
by yesbut on Friday September 23, 2022 @08:32PM
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These corporate sponsored legislators are really good at writing policy that sounds good to the public but really helps their corporate sponsor's bottom lines in practice. This bill wouldn't exist if it wasn't designed by large corporate software firms looking to taint, or profit from, FOSS in some way.
Re:'Securing Open Source Software Act' introduced to US Senate
by staticassertion on Saturday September 24, 2022 @01:53AM
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Isn't it very obvious that the US government has a vested interested in software security? I see no reason whatsoever to believe that this is some sly attempt to make FOSS more expensive as opposed to the US trying to solve a very real problem.
Re:'Securing Open Source Software Act' introduced to US Senate
by Xelynega on Saturday September 24, 2022 @10:36AM
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If it were truly about software security it wouldn't be limited to open source. Whatever standards make a piece of software secure doesn't change when it's developed by a company or a community, so what's the reason they're making the distinction in law?
For that reason I agree with the conclusion of the person above, things don't happen in capitalist societies without someone getting paid for it.
Re:'Securing Open Source Software Act' introduced to US Senate
by staticassertion on Saturday September 24, 2022 @03:01PM
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> things don't happen in capitalist societies without someone getting paid for it.
Yeah? Someone paid you to post this?
Re:'Securing Open Source Software Act' introduced to US Senate
by yesbut on Saturday September 24, 2022 @10:42AM
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well, we can't leave it to pesky kumbaya, drum circle, communist software devs that work for free to do good security. only corporate capitalist software devs care about security. duh! now help me get this encryption bill passed so we can put back doors in our encryption, you know, for the kids' safety.
/s
Re:'Securing Open Source Software Act' introduced to US Senate
by themitigating on Friday September 23, 2022 @08:55PM
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100% sure? Why not find out if that's true because I'm sure there are exceptions.
If it is a money thing then it probably has more to do setting up "standards" and "compliance" requirements that you must me to use FOSS software in the government. Then federal contractors and other big FOSS organizations repackage their existing solution as "Government ISO-MITRE, PCI, Whatever-BS-Acronym-we-can-come-up-with" compliant and charge a premium over something they already sale.
I don't think this will hurt FOSS, at the end of the day FOSS is nothing more than someone saying "here's something I wrote or whatever." and sharing it, anything that tries to make more than that isn't talking about FOSS anymore.