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0 pointsyesbut3y ago0 comments

These corporate sponsored legislators are really good at writing policy that sounds good to the public but really helps their corporate sponsor's bottom lines in practice. This bill wouldn't exist if it wasn't designed by large corporate software firms looking to taint, or profit from, FOSS in some way.

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staticassertion3y ago· 3 in thread

Isn't it very obvious that the US government has a vested interested in software security? I see no reason whatsoever to believe that this is some sly attempt to make FOSS more expensive as opposed to the US trying to solve a very real problem.

If it were truly about software security it wouldn't be limited to open source. Whatever standards make a piece of software secure doesn't change when it's developed by a company or a community, so what's the reason they're making the distinction in law?

For that reason I agree with the conclusion of the person above, things don't happen in capitalist societies without someone getting paid for it.

staticassertion3y ago

> things don't happen in capitalist societies without someone getting paid for it.

Yeah? Someone paid you to post this?

yesbutOP3y ago

well, we can't leave it to pesky kumbaya, drum circle, communist software devs that work for free to do good security. only corporate capitalist software devs care about security. duh! now help me get this encryption bill passed so we can put back doors in our encryption, you know, for the kids' safety.

/s

themitigating3y ago· 1 in thread

100% sure? Why not find out if that's true because I'm sure there are exceptions.

yesbutOP3y ago

100% sure.

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