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That doesn't smell good at all. It smells like conflict of interest, it's the kind of initiative, and speech, that we have got too many times already, that ends up to be used to reduce our freedom.

See: Can you trust your computer

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Their company link

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[โ€“] PushButton@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

It's not funding anything, that's a private company made by ex-Microsoft employees...

I am just out of words for you.

[โ€“] troed@fedia.io 2 points 6 days ago

.. yeah. That'll pay the salaries for these excellent open source developers, allowing them to work on something that brings benefit to Linux usage in secure environment.

/cybersec professional