• Mwa@thelemmy.club
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    3 months ago

    Since they force everything to be open source and i think has strict rules, no

    • Rikudou_Sage@lemmings.world
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      3 months ago
      1. Write an open source malware
      2. Freely publish it everywhere because everyone assumes someone checked it, because it’s open source, you know?
      3. ???
      4. Profit
      • thevoidzero@lemmy.world
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        3 months ago

        That’s the thing though if it’s open source and 99.9% don’t check that 0.1% checking it will be enough.

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          3 months ago

          By definition in order to have . 1% then the sample size must be greater than 1,000. The vast majority of open source projects will not get to this level.

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            3 months ago

            I think for a open source projects with such a low number of users, the first few users will definitely look further than “it’s open source”.