'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.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.Do you honestly think Rob fucking Portman woke up one day with strong opinions about FOSS?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.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.