• SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml
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    4 days ago

    Honestly I feel like government investment is the way to go for operating systems. They are something that everyone needs (assuming they live digitally) just like schools or the fire department. And governments are sort of the operating system of society anyway

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      4 days ago

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

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          2 days 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.