[ILUG-BOM] Linux India Initiative

[Harsh Busa]

Hi Amish,

it is virtually impossible to implement such a fourm
across the globe or even locally. 

regards
harsh

 --- Amish Munshi <amish_munshi at sify.com> wrote: > 
> 	How about an organization who check the source code
> and maintains a copy of 
> the source code with itself. It will be issuing
> certificates to the softwares 
> that companies develop. Every company who wants to
> sell their software should 
> have a certificate from this organization.
> 	For example a government organization called
> Software Checker (SC) will be 
> responsible to test source code of every major
> softwares like operating 
> system , databases, etc. A company who likes to gain
> more clients will try to 
> get such certificates from SC(here the SC
> organization can charge them for 
> it). 
> 	The source of idea is cryptography - when two
> people dont trust each other 
> they need to trust a third party.  Here the 3rd
> party is SC. So the source 
> code does not get leaked, while the client is happy
> that the source code is 
> secure to use and does not have any back door
> trojans, etc. If for 
> cryptography we can trust Verisign (Microsoft
> company) then we can always 
> trust someone for source code.
> 
> 	This ofcourse is easier said than done.
> 

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