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How would that work for open source? Wouldn't the company just make its own builds?


Then companies are on the hook for validating and and remediating internal builds of CVEs.

Michaelt is right and it is becoming a major source of revenue for open-core startups (eg. Chainguard)


This is a great idea! If the open sources licenses could be changed (if that's even possible!) such that only the original authors or their designees can create these signatures/attestations, then:

... If Google really wanted to ship bash (or whatever) with the certs/attestation, they'd have to cough up enough money to make the developer(s) happy. If they don't Google is out of luck, they cannot sign it themselves. So it becomes a tradeoff of how much money the original developer(s) want vs how valuable it is and/or how much it would cost Google to build their own (and thus be able to sign/attest it) if the original developers got too greedy.

AKA a free market software economy!




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