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>I never understood why it was free yet closed-source. It made me suspicious in a way, if that makes sense.

Unless binary builds are verified against the source code (or the code is reviewed and compiled locally), security is not a criteria that's benefited. The gitian process in bitcoin is an interesting solution on how to verify builds.




You can just build the source yourself. So if you trust your compiler more than flux devs, that would be better.




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