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by anticristi 814 days ago
The proposed EU Cyber resilience Act positions itself to be a solution. To put it simply, vendors are responsible for vulnerabilities throughout the lifetime of their products, whether that is a firewall or a toaster. Thus, the vendors are incentives to keep OSS secure, whether that means paying maintainers, commissioning code audits or hiring FTEs to contribute.