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by DINKDINK 3809 days ago
>I never understood why it was free yet closed-source. It made me suspicious in a way, if that makes sense.

Unless binary builds are verified against the source code (or the code is reviewed and compiled locally), security is not a criteria that's benefited. The gitian process in bitcoin is an interesting solution on how to verify builds.

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You can just build the source yourself. So if you trust your compiler more than flux devs, that would be better.