The FOSS fakery problem

“The answer, unfortunately, is no, because there are people who
are more than happy to use open source to distribute malware. This
shouldn’t be surprising when you consider there are scareware
merchants who are prepared to trick users into believing their
systems are infected with viruses to get them to pay for
non-functioning anti-virus software which often includes malware.
These criminal types have another trick up their sleeve: they can
take popular open source programs, compile in their malware or just
bundle it into the installer, and then advertise it for sale on the
net.”

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