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> "Red Hat has never intentionally inserted a back door in our products, and we have never received a court order to do so," Sure. But that doesn't mean it doe
by pksadiq 10y ago
> "Red Hat has never intentionally inserted a back door in our products, and we have never received a court order to do so,"
Sure. But that doesn't mean it doesn't contain any backdoors. RedHat (also Fedora, Ubuntu, and many others) kindly accepts non-free binary blobs (in Linux kernel), which may make the system vulnerable with backdoors.
Not much people care about software freedom. Most care about "open source." Though it does have some interest in freedom (ie, opening the source, but not freeing), that's not its vital aim. For most, it is money (though they say, quality), and for a few it is power.
As long as the majority of the world focuses on money or power, we will see some weakness in security, and freedom (That doesn't mean free software are more secure, but the user have the choice).