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Submission + - Open Source and Amazon 2

An anonymous reader writes: As most Slashdot readers are aware, Amazon tends to take open source products, package them into a service and sell them as a service on Amazon Cloud. I have a few questions about this:
1. Have open source products benefited from this? Is Amazon investing back into the open source company, and how?
2. I heard that some open source products changed their licensing to prevent this — what products have done this?
3. Is this a future business model for open source software? Big companies are some of the major contributors to Linux, is that happening to other open source software that is being "service-ized" as well?

Comment Re:Rocky, Springdale, minor releases (Score 1) 137

With a huge exception of an ass-backwards security fix model. If there is an embargoed CVE, it gets fixed in rhel first, embargo is lifted/updated packages available for RHEL, but the work to port that change to CentOS stream is done after the embargo is lifted. SuSE, Debian, and Ubuntu both participate in security fix embargoes so there is zero delay from publishing to fixes available. CentOS (and Oracle) typically did have a minimal delay due to needing to wait for the redhat srpm's to be released and rebuilt for their systems, but at least the work is consumable immediately. CentOS stream may be slightly easier to release fixes for instead of the longer delays seen in fedora, but Redhat committing to ensuring Stream fixes are ready at the time of embargo lift would go a long way to easing a lot of our minds.

Submission + - Why haven't we moved to PKI based voting yet? 17

t0qer writes: Hello Slashdot, Given the current state of affairs with elections, why haven't we gone to an open source, PKI based voting system? SSL.com has a pretty interesting piece on using PKI in voting. There's also a github project that leverages PKI and IBM blockchain technology.
Looking all the way back to the 2000 election with Gore, it just seems like paper at this point has outlived its secureness. A closed sourced voting system doesn't really seem like the kind of thing slashdot would really get behind. (As a side note, my very introduction to the world of OSS came from this site) I'm fairly well versed in PKI technology, and quoting this site, it would take traditional computers 300 Trillion years to break RSA-2048 for a single vote. I just don't understand why the US can demand countries it "Democratizes" into using these types of voting systems, but we do not.

Submission + - Thunderbird 78.2.1 closes 21 year old request for OpenPGP support (ghacks.net)

AmiMoJo writes: The team that works on the Thunderbird email client has released Thunderbird 78.2.1 to the client's stable channel on August 29, 2020. One of the big new features of Thunderbird 78 was support for PGP encryption baked into the client directly. Thunderbird users had to install extensions such as Enigmail to integrate PGP support. The release of Thunderbird 78 integrated OpenPGP support in the email client, but it was not enabled by default because of issues that still needed to be resolved. The release of Thunderbird 78.2.1 enables OpenPGP support by default in Thunderbird. Thunderbird users may select Tools > OpenPGP Key Manager to get started. The window that opens displays available keys that have been generated previously or imported, and options to generate new keys that can then be used to encrypt email conversations.

Comment Re:We need to save the browser (Score 1) 46

Firefox (perceived) performance has been horrible for seemingly a decade now. Every time i click the orange button to cross-check something against chrome I regret it. Firefox used to have an edge as they were more efficient if you had more tabs open but that hasn't been the case for a long time now.

Comment Re:Legend has it... (Score 1) 135

You must be REALLY young. Just without screens??

...

Imagine a world where you really could be untrackable and unreachable. ... Where you could drive a car and reasonably expect that other drivers were paying attention to only the road. It existed.

You must be REALLY naive then. People stopped paying attention to the road as soon as they had anyone else around, or lipstick or razors or a crossword or a billboard... arguably the biggest lesson cars can teach us is that people are really distractible when doing incredibly dangerous activities that have become mundane.

In some ways it was bad.

Yeah, like the whole being out of touch in emergency situations thing...

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