Postscript on “Open Source Software and Corporate Influence”
February 12, 2025
Sharing additional thoughts arising from discussions around “Open Source Software and Corporate Influence.”
I work on software security as a Principal Engineer at MITRE, including working on the CVE system, leading development of Hipcheck, and serving on the OmniBOR Core Team.
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Sharing additional thoughts arising from discussions around “Open Source Software and Corporate Influence.”
Open source software projects are frequently enmeshed with the interests of corporations. We should update mental models of who works on open source accordingly, and build or modify power structures to be more resilient to corporate capture.
Folks at Google explain how to think about the move to memory safe languages: “the problem is new code.”
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