Re: Risks of deterministic builds

[Jan Nieuwenhuizen]

Martin writes:

> Maybe freedom in "free software" shouldn't require from the code to be
> open neither. Let's just blindly trust some saint developers who
> cannot even control their own binaries. Actually today we are closer
> and closer to that sad scenario like never before in the history,
> because in fact most of the open-source and GNU "free software"
> nowadays base on blackboxed binary seeds that cannot be verified by
> the users not even by the core developers.

The bootstrappable project, GNU Mes and GNU Guix are working to fix that

    https://guix.gnu.org/en/blog/2020/guix-further-reduces-bootstrap-seed-to-25/
    https://fosdem.org/2021/schedule/event/gnumes/

Greetings,
Janneke

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