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> the governments will have to fork and audit the code Why would they do this? It’s not like they fork and audit the code that they’re using now. They just tru
by Aeolun 2y ago
> the governments will have to fork and audit the code
Why would they do this? It’s not like they fork and audit the code that they’re using now. They just trust that it’s safe because they paid for it. Which probably sounds incredibly stupid to anyone who’s ever worked for big enterprise, or just followed the news really.
- bee_rider 2y agoWhen you sell somebody code you have an ethical responsibility to have done your best (and maintained a reasonable level of professional competence) to ensure it is defect free. Lots of companies don’t take that very seriously, which is bad, and a great reason to switch away from them. At least the government can bring the CEO before congress and waste his day. With open source code the responsibility is taken by the user instead. For me, and probably a lot of people here, we all mostly just ignore that, but it’s fine, because we’re free to ignore our responsibility to ourselves. In the case of a government supplying open source code to their citizens, the responsibility defaults to the provider, that is, the government.
- tbrownaw 2y ago> When you sell somebody code you have an ethical responsibility to... > With open source code the responsibility is taken by the user instead. What is RHEL?
- DANmode 2y agoA known-good configuration, sold by an OSS support/services company.
- _Algernon_ 2y agoRed hat has managed to make FOSS useable in enterprise environments since 1995. There is no reason why this model could not be applied to other FOSS projects.
- bee_rider 2y agoI think that’s more-or-less what I’m suggesting. I mean, Red Hat exists to take responsibility for the code. I guess what I suggested might be more intense than what they do, not actually sure what their workflow is. But it seems like the level of diligence that a government ought to apply, right?
- Aeolun 2y ago> When you sell somebody code you have an ethical responsibility to have done your best (and maintained a reasonable level of professional competence) Sure, this is why you outsource everything to the cheapest labor possible. It’s easy to say you did your best if you had a team of 40 people all drooling over the keyboard, and the best of them managed to hit the spacebar to commit. Then you complain that competent employees just cannot be found.
- surfingdino 2y agoTo prevent hacking. They do it today. Not necessarily forking, but there are audits.