PowerCrazy@lemmy.mltoOpen Source@lemmy.ml•Ventoy source code contains some unknown BLOBs, still no word on the issue from the dev after monthsEnglish
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2 months agoHey guys open source is great you can look at all the code and therefore there are no security backdoors etc. Also here are a bunch of pre-compiled blobs in the repo, don’t worry about those, but they are required to run the program.
This isn’t a knock against opensource programming, but there shouldn’t ever be precompiled blobs in the repo unless they are the official builds for the various OS’s and if you want to build from source, the pre-compiled blobs shouldn’t be part of that, otherwise you can’t really claim you are opensource.