Mitigating Memory Safety Issues in Open Source Software
What is left out of the title is that they do not provide funding to the current authors/maintainers of these open source projects. Instead, they fund an organization that will rewrite these tools.Correct me if I’m wrong, but that’s my understanding of the rather terse article.I would rather have the original maintainers funded and still in control of the many pieces that form the basis of the major Linux distributions.