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Re:Ask HN: Crucial question about trust in open source apps by JohnFen on Wednesday February 26, 2025 @10:24AM (#43184509)
They can't. The only way to be certain is to take that code and build the app yourself. If you're downloading prebuilt binary, you have to trust that the author is correctly representing what it was built from.

This is even more true with SaaS, because the binaries used there can and do change without warning.

Re:Ask HN: Crucial question about trust in open source apps by musfk on Wednesday February 26, 2025 @11:44AM (#43185372)
If I am building an iOS app and decide to open source it to build trust with customers, it will not work.