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Good luck, Flathub, with convincing companies to sell their software in your planned store 🤡. (feddit.de)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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The title says it all. Browsed Flathub and saw this fat warning label on the Steam Flatpak. Maybe not the best idea if you want to compete with Canoncial's Snapstore, but hey, what do I know 🤷

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

This is the warning:

This software is not developed in the open, so only its developers know how it works. It may be insecure in ways that are hard to detect, and it may change without oversight.

tbh assuming automatically open source software is more secure is false, At least one link which mentioned studies said that open source probably does not always "outperform" closed source software in term of security.

The relative security of open source software has been examined repeatedly by researchers since the early 2000s. Open source software contains no more flaws on average than proprietary software. In some cases, it may have fewer vulnerabilities.

Some might argue that having a paid team means better security, So i don't know if the warning about security is really justified, and it might give people a bad impression about flathub (that it is being dogmatic), at least link to some page providing a more detailed explanation would be better (and might prevent new FOSS users from getting a false sense of security).

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

No one claimed it was more secure

They claimed that if you needed to vett it for specific vulnerabilities, you were capable of doing so

And the song and dance about “open source isn’t more secure” is meaningless, as you don’t care about security the same way in all applications, and the ones trivial enough not to care about are going to be by and large open source

(Assuming their data collection methods were even adequate, as by definition they could only vett the open source half of the claim. We know for a fact that proprietary software routinely buries or hides vulnerabilities unless forced to do otherwise)