• loki@lemmy.ml
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    4 years ago

    would open-source benefit from a security nightmare flash was? genuinely asking

    • mae@lemmy.ml
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      4 years ago

      having access to the source code could be a starting point to create an open source version free of its security flaws

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      yeah, people could slowly start fixing it, which would be more-ish reasonable-ish since it’s not one company’s programmers but a bunch of randos from a lot of places proposing fixes and doing things