What do open source maintainers know about security?
8y agoen
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Open source maintainers give up their own time to create great pieces of free software, which we then use to create business value. In our State of Open Source Security Report, open source consumers and maintainers were asked about their security expertise, actions and sense of ownership — and the results were very mixed.
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