'Securing Open Source Software Act' introduced to US Senate
Reading the comments so far, I'm genuinely surprised that more folks haven't applied a "follow the money" lens to their analysis.<p>To me, it reads as a bald-faced attempt to discourage public sector entities from using OSS solutions, when in fact there are perfectly good and definitely >100% secure proprietary offerings that cost a reasonable amount when purchased from the sorts of vendors that pay lobbyists to "help" senators write OSS bills.<p>Do you honestly think Rob fucking Portman woke up one day with strong opinions about FOSS?<p>Make no mistake: this is a thinly veiled late-stage attempt to displace the growing dominance of OSS-based solutions to the sorts of problems that the government and military used to pay 8 and 9 figures a year to EDS to solve.<p>An actual, good-faith bill that seeks to address these issues would attempt to incentivize/punish orgs that use FOSS without making meaningful contributions to it.