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White House Pledges $10 Million for Open Source Initiative (www.darkreading.com)

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The Open-Source Software Prevalence Initiative, announced at DEF CON, will examine how open source software is used in critical infrastructure.

National Cyber Director Harry Coker announced the initiative at the DEF CON conference in Las Vegas. Funding for the project, which seeks to learn how open source software is used in critical infrastructure and with the ultimate goal of strengthening national cybersecurity, comes from the 2021 Bipartisan Infrastructure Law.

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[-] Reverendender@sh.itjust.works 26 points 3 months ago

I bet we could switch the entire U.S. Government to Linux for less than 20 billion

[-] hoanbridgetroll@midwest.social 19 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Go ahead and explain open source to Sen. Bloodfeast. His response will most certainly contain the word “communism”.

[-] todd_bonzalez@lemm.ee 4 points 3 months ago

Just let Linux Torvalds at him. He'll tell that moron to fuck off.

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