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Linux Foundation announces Open Source Security Foundation

([Briefs] Aug 3, 2020 20:14 UTC (Mon) (ris))


The Linux Foundation has [1]announced the formation of the Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF). The foundation aims to improve the security of open source software. " The OpenSSF brings together the industry’s most important open source security initiatives and the individuals and companies that support them. The Linux Foundation’s Core Infrastructure Initiative (CII), founded in response to the 2014 Heartbleed bug, and the Open Source Security Coalition, founded by the GitHub Security Lab, are just a couple of the projects that will be brought together under the new OpenSSF. The Foundation’s governance, technical community and its decisions will be transparent, and any specifications and projects developed will be vendor agnostic. The OpenSSF is committed to collaboration and working both upstream and with existing communities to advance open source security for all. "



[1] https://www.linuxfoundation.org/press-release/2020/08/technology-and-enterprise-leaders-combine-efforts-to-improve-open-source-security/

Microsoft Mandatory Survey (#1)

Customers who want to upgrade to Windows 98 Second Edition must now fill
out a Microsoft survey online before they can order the bugfix/upgrade.

Question 1: What is your opinion of the Microsoft antitrust trial?

A. The DoJ is wasting taxpayer's money. Now, if the DOJ were to upgrade
all of its computer systems to Windows, then the department would be
making wise use of tax dollars.

B. All of the Microsoft email messages that the evil government has
presented as evidence are obviously taken out of context or have been
completely twisted around. I mean... Bill Gates would never say "let's
cut off their air supply" in a memo; it's an obvious fabrication.

C. Judge Jackson is obviously biased in favor of the DOJ's vigilante
persecution of Microsoft.

D. If Microsoft loses, it will be the gravest miscarriage of justice in
all the history of mankind.