How sweet would the revenge be... They sued him for $1.3 billion. He started a competing company. He took away $130 billion of their business over x years.
no USB ports
no internet connectivity
no mass adjudication
no signature verification by 1 pt of similarity
no audit log deletion
no algorithms
no fractional voting
open source
national security experts approved
forensic audits
Many R states would buy!!
(This data sheet above is for only one state, Georgia, probably.)
"open source tends to mean that people will be able to hack your shit far easier"
That's not true. Systems striving for security depend on Linux over Microsoft for a reason. Since the code is open anyone can search for and repair bugs and backdoors. And it would be transparent too so we could at least look for hacks, unlike with these black box closed systems which wont even let you forensic audit.
"cannot profit"
So? That doesn't stop it from being the best service in a competition. As much funds can be raised and earned as necessary to benefit the project. Open source alternatives to major proprietary software are often competitive if not better (certainly cheaper if not free).
PACs, foundations, and other giant political operations are non-profit and still have huge effect.
Also, ancillary projects to open source projects are also often used to gain profit outside of, but connected to, the open source project itself.
How sweet would the revenge be... They sued him for $1.3 billion. He started a competing company. He took away $130 billion of their business over x years.
Many R states would buy!!
(This data sheet above is for only one state, Georgia, probably.)
If you have an open source project, you cannot profit from that project. It's part of the GPL agreement.
Plus, open source tends to mean that people will be able to hack your shit far easier and election software is a BIG target for that.
"open source tends to mean that people will be able to hack your shit far easier"
That's not true. Systems striving for security depend on Linux over Microsoft for a reason. Since the code is open anyone can search for and repair bugs and backdoors. And it would be transparent too so we could at least look for hacks, unlike with these black box closed systems which wont even let you forensic audit.
"cannot profit"
So? That doesn't stop it from being the best service in a competition. As much funds can be raised and earned as necessary to benefit the project. Open source alternatives to major proprietary software are often competitive if not better (certainly cheaper if not free).
PACs, foundations, and other giant political operations are non-profit and still have huge effect.
Also, ancillary projects to open source projects are also often used to gain profit outside of, but connected to, the open source project itself.
You don’t have to open source under the GPL. 🤷🏼♂️