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by Caligatio 1907 days ago
By this standard, there is practically nothing that qualifies as open source. Compile something yourself? Well can you really trust your compiler unless you compiled it? How do you compile your compiler without a compiler? Obviously this is possible but no one does it; therefore no software is truly open source.
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I disagree that these are on the same level - compiling something yourself, or having something compiled by ie the Arch Linux maintainers requires a number of people to comply.

The app store is a single point of failure with huge reach.