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Yeah, I think that's the most viable solution to this problem. The US federal govt should fund software projects that are widely used. It's good for our nationa
by lantry 4y ago
Yeah, I think that's the most viable solution to this problem. The US federal govt should fund software projects that are widely used. It's good for our national security, and it facilitates economic growth.
This could either be grants to maintainers, grants to software nonprofits like linux foundation, or some kind of national software lab that employs people to maintain and audit open source software (or ideally, all of the above)
- bombolo 4y agoThey would not pay non-USA citizens, and the NSA would be asking for backdoors.