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Google Funds Linux Kernel Developers to Focus Exclusively on Security

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Google Funds Linux Kernel Developers to Focus Exclusively on Security

SAN FRANCISCO, February 24, 2021 — Today, Google and the Linux Foundationannounced they are prioritizing funds to underwrite two full-time maintainers for Linux kernel security development, Gustavo Silva and Nathan Chancellor.

Silva and Chancellor’s exclusive focus is to maintain and improve kernel security and associated initiatives in order to ensure the world’s most pervasive open source software project is sustainable for decades to come…

https://www.linuxfoundation.org/en/press-release/google-funds-linux-kernel-developers-to-focus-exclusively-on-security/

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