US security initiative is good for open source

Posted by dave on Apr 6, 2006 10:48 AM EDT
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In January 2006, the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced the "Vulnerability Discovery and Remediation, Open Source Hardening Project". The plan is for DHS to pay, over a three-year period, $1.24m to Stanford University (which gets 68% of the funding), Coverity (24%) and Symantec (8%) for them to boost the security of top open-source projects.

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