• sculd@beehaw.org
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    1 year ago

    What I don’t understand is why governments don’t try to fund open source software.

    Cyber is increasingly becoming an attack vector on key infrastructure and it would be so helpful to have a group of developers to be at government disposal while understanding what software is being run on.

    I understand that China and a few other countries use Linux but this is not enough. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Linux_adopters

    Honestly any nation not named the United States should move to FOSS if they care about security. Imagine the keys to all important infrastructure being held by foreign companies.

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      1 year ago

      What I don’t understand is why governments don’t try to fund open source software.

      Honestly, i think a lot of politicians are actually too old to understand even the slightest thing about cybersecurity and safety on the internet. Looking at my age group and certainly above that age, they often don’t even know the difference between windows and a browser!