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KDE Receiving Over 1.2 Million EUR Investment From Germany's Sovereign Tech Fund (www.phoronix.com)
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[-] refalo@programming.dev 1 points 3 months ago

At the same time you also have many people who will claim that software with government contribution is automatically compromised.

[-] SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 months ago

I feel like that argument is moot if the source is open

[-] refalo@programming.dev 1 points 3 months ago

I think that assumes that people are actually auditing all the code, and carefully enough. I think most people greatly overestimate how much code is actually ever audited.

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