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rglullis@communick.news to Free and Open Source Software@beehaw.orgEnglish · 2 years ago

Open Source Is Struggling And It’s Not Big Tech That Is To Blame

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Open Source Is Struggling And It’s Not Big Tech That Is To Blame

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rglullis@communick.news to Free and Open Source Software@beehaw.orgEnglish · 2 years ago
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I was at an evening reception in Germany together with people from the German software community, business owners, government and…
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    Different context, but still relevant.

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    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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    Account walled article

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    Open source isn’t struggling. It’s a struggle. People have high expectations, and expectations go awry in open source and profit models.

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