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Reduce government spending; since it's not actually a government organization (as far as I can tell, I never looked into it before), other organizations can fun
by Cthulhu_ 2y ago
Reduce government spending; since it's not actually a government organization (as far as I can tell, I never looked into it before), other organizations can fund it. How much goes into this organization a year anyway? I'm seeing a Mitre corporation that does lots of other stuff too that has a revenue of 2.2 billion a year.
Multi-trillion-dollar companies benefit from and contribute to this system, surely they can spare 0.01% of their revenue to this bit of critical infrastruture?
- bert-ye 2y ago> surely they can spare 0.01% of their revenue They would, if we made companies pay their taxes. Yes, you can also run such a system based on donations. But I personally think that such a system is important enough to be paid for by the government. When you run on donations, there will always be conflicts of interest and the risk of running out of funds. But yeah, Mitre being a private organization that was paid for by the government was a problem.
- terribleperson 2y agoYes, I'm sure corporations funding the CVE system would go wonderfully. "It would be best if we don't see any severe CVEs for our products this quarter, if you want our funding next quarter."
- kesor 2y agoMITRE is a non-profit, it receives about $1.5B from the federal government, and another almost $2B from Virginia.