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Thanks for pointing this out - seems like another step by corporates towards stepping up control over open source software. I'd rather have someone like the Fre

Thanks for pointing this out - seems like another step by corporates towards stepping up control over open source software. I'd rather have someone like the Free Software Foundation and EFF to be in charge of these kinds of things.

CyberRabbi 5y ago
Imagine having to register with a certificate authority run by Google just to submit a patch.
- atonse 5y ago
  Except nowhere is this even implied. The legal entity here is the Linux Foundation. As they’ve said, this seems like LetsEncrypt for software signing. I found out about this project 30 mins ago and honestly it sounds great. it would be awesome for us to roll this out even for our internal libraries.
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  - CyberRabbi 5y ago
    Okay allow me to revise my comment: Imagine having to register with a certificate authority run by the Linux Foundation just to submit a patch.