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The Atlantic Council on open-source policy
Thursday February 9, 2023. 12:27 AM , from LWN.net
The Atlantic Council (described by
Wikipedia as 'an American think tank in the field of international affairs') has published a lengthy report on the problem of security in open-source software and what might be done about it. OSS is really not much different from proprietary software: all code can be developed more securely, and the security risks OSS faces are common across most digital systems. For OSS the differences come in the relationships between open-source consumers—from government to the private sector to end users—and the projects they rely on. The lack of clear transactional relationships and the deeply influential role of the diverse, ever-changing contributor community are a challenge for policy and industry to navigate and support sufficiently. The result is an ecosystem that has both enabled digital innovation and often suffered from overburdened developers and under-resourced communities and projects.
https://lwn.net/Articles/922674/
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