The XZ Utils backdoor, discovered last week, and the Heartbleed security vulnerability ten years ago, share the same ultimate root cause. Both of them, and in fact all critical infrastructure open source projects, should be fixed with the same solution: ensure baseline funding for proper open source maintenance.\n
  • DetectiveSanity@lemmy.world
    9·
    7 months ago

    Imagine if the governments were to fund open source projects when they need and as such the benefit is available to everyone if they have no money.

    In such scenario all governments/citizens would have access to software that is good.

    • registeredusername@lemmy.worldEnglish
      51·
      7 months ago

      But but think about those poor (for profit) corporations. How can they ever afford to pay upper management million dolla paychecks without milking us dry :)

      And think about the children

      /s

    • wiki_me@lemmy.mlEnglish
      1·
      7 months ago

      My country has non profits that lobby for citizens , I wonder if there is enough motivation in the community to set something like that for FOSS, I don’t think existing non profits (FSF, OSI) will want to deal with that kind of stuff .

  • bigkahuna1986@lemmy.ml
    6·
    7 months ago

    It’s always impressive to me that instead of sending billions of dollars to Microsoft, the US government could have had an entire operating system that caters exactly to them. They could have then given back in the form of commits improving the software for the rest of us too.