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by jpc0
705 days ago
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I have a different take on this. I feel having the solution open sourced isn't bad from a code security standpoint, but rathee that it is simply not economically viable. To my knowledge most of the major open source technologies are currently funded by FAANG and purely because it's needed by them to conduct business and the moment it becomes inconvenient for them to support it they fork it or develop their own, see Terraform/Redis... I also cannot get behind a government funding model purely because it will simply become a design by committee nightmare because this isn't flashy tech. Just see how many private companies have beaten NASA to market in a pretty well funded and very flashy industry. The very government you want to fund these solutions are currently running on private companies infrastructure for all their IT needs. Yes opensouring is definitely amazing and if executed well will be better, just like communism. |
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Government has to fund not run it like any other grant works today. The existing foundations and non profits like Apache or even mixed ones like Mozilla are fairly capable of handling the grants.
Expecting private companies or dedicated volunteers to maintain mission critical libraries like xz is not a viable option as we are doing it now.