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What is free software?

Free software is software that respects the 4 software freedoms. The 4 freedoms are

The freedom to run the run the program
The freedom to study the source code
The freedom to modify the source code
The freedom to distribute modified versions of the source code

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German state moving 30,000 PCs to LibreOffice - The Document Foundation Blog (blog.documentfoundation.org)

submitted 8 months ago by possiblylinux127 to c/freesoftware

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago (1 children)

It would be great to have government-funded groups of people auditing open source software world-wide.

Not any one government, but what if 50 countries put together a team of like.. ten people to do the tedious work of constantly checking code. That would be 500 people who could regularly put out releases about what they’ve found, which could be verified by anyone world-wide.

In exchange, we all get free secure software for our tax dollars.

[–] possiblylinux127 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

The US has CISA

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Yeah, but they’re not really concerned with things like corporations farming user data or trying to improving free software everyone can access.

They make sure the government networks are secure, while also making sure it’s American corporations getting your data.

[–] possiblylinux127 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

With all the recent security breaches I'll take what I can get

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

True, but we could do better