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Google says open source software should be more secure

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In conjunction with a White House meeting on Thursday at which technology companies discussed the security of open source software, Google proposed three initiatives to strengthen national cybersecurity.

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flufferbeer ·
* To identify a list of critical open source projects (identified and Embraced by Google of course!)

* To establish baseline standards for security, maintenance, provenance, and testing (maintained, $upported and Extended by Google in its OWN testing labs)

* To set up a maintenance marketplace, to match volunteers to needy projects (marketplace so that Google has free reign to change the software licenses of those "needy projects" away from the GPL to more restrictive licenses that in effect Extinguishes 'em for NON-Google OSS volunteers everywhere!)

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