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Re:As US vuln-tracking falters, EU enters with its own secur... by c7b on Tuesday May 13, 2025 @01:17PM (#43975325)
What do you mean? A government service is a public service, by any conventional use of the term. Public/private is orthogonal to open source.
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Re:As US vuln-tracking falters, EU enters with its own secur... by aerostable_slug on Tuesday May 13, 2025 @03:35PM (#43976756)
Community-maintained might be a better phrasing.

There's no particular reason a vulnerability database needs to be government-sponsored, and some compelling reasons why it shouldn't be "owned" by one government or another (one being guaranteed continuity even during seasons of change).

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