Microsoft, Red Hat, Google, Others Create the Open Source Security Foundation

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“Microsoft loves Linux” is the thing representatives of the Redmond-based software giant say on pretty much every occasion, and truth be told, the company is investing very aggressively in everything that’s in any way related to the open-source world.

And today, the Redmond-based firm is making another similar move, as it’s joining a series of other companies for the creation of a new collaboration hosted at the Linux Foundation and called Open Source Security Foundation, or OpenSSF.

As its name suggests, the whole idea of this massive collaboration is to improve security in the open-source software space, and Microsoft is willing to work with other tech giants in this regard.

Already committed to open-source security

The rest of the partners include Google, Red Hat, IBM, Microsoft-owned GitHub, NCC Group, and OWASP Foundation.

“Open-source software is inherently community-driven and as such, there is no central authority responsible for quality… (read more)

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