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on Saturday April 25 2015, @04:16PM
from the we-can-trust-the-gubmint-for-encryption-and-security dept.
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A study by European IT security experts suggests that the EU should also fund or participate in the development of open source software to ensure end-to-end encryption solutions. Using open source is not a universal remedy, they state, but it is an “important ingredient in an EU strategy for more security and technological independence.” The experts say support for open source will increase the EU’s technological independence.
A second study for this committee meeting argues that the use of open source computer operating systems and applications reduces the risk of privacy intrusion by mass surveillance.
https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/community/osor/news/ep-study-%E2%80%9Ceu-should-finance-key-open-source-tools%E2%80%9D
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(Score: 3, Insightful) by TheRaven on Sunday April 26 2015, @06:04PM
Open source has mostly been avoided by for-profit corporations
Huh? I guess you missed the few billions that were invested in open source development last year, or the massive companies that have built their businesses on open source software.
It should probably stay that way, don't you think?
No, I quite like being paid thanks.
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(Score: 2) by frojack on Monday April 27 2015, @05:58PM
Open source has mostly been avoided by for-profit corporations
Huh? I guess you missed the few billions that were invested in open source development last year, or the massive companies that have built their businesses on open source software.
Actually, I said that badly...
What I meant to say is that Big corporations use open source, because its free, and more trustworthy than Windows.
But other than a small-ish number of companies that actually have it as their CORE business to develop opensource software, (Red Hat, Canonical, etc), most companies do very little to support opensource.
Some, it is true, might employ a developer or two, and not assign them any major tasks, allowing them time to work on Linux. (Hell, even Microsoft does that). But it is seldom a big budget item.
Oracle does some things. But look at how OpenOffice, and MySQL worked out for them, and how poorly they handled both.
Red Hat force fed us Systemd, and pretty much abandoned their free Linux.
IBM contributes code to several projects, give them credit for that.
Novell fell on their sword of OpenSuse, and it pretty much killed them as a company.
Apple takes opensource private (BSD), and only started contributing back when browbeaten into it, (Kongueror), while killing off feature of purchased OS projects other than what they need (CUPS).
But most companies don't do much for Opensource, other than use it for free.
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(Score: 2) by TheRaven on Tuesday April 28 2015, @01:03PM
But other than a small-ish number of companies that actually have it as their CORE business to develop opensource software, (Red Hat, Canonical, etc), most companies do very little to support opensource
That's not true, in my experience. A lot of the consulting work I've done has been working for relatively small companies for whom open source is not part of their core business (often mostly proprietary shops) who want to have some extra feature added to an open source project. Upstreaming is usually part of the contract, because they don't want to maintain a private fork.
Apple takes opensource private (BSD), and only started contributing back when browbeaten into it,
As a FreeBSD and LLVM developer, I'd say that's a fairly gross mischaracterisation of Apple's interactions with open source. They'll happily engage with existing communities and release code (they've even changed licenses of things on request for us in the past and offered to do so again).
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