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		foxX on Sept 24, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Modifications to Google Chromium for removing Goog... The fact that the source code is available does not guarantee that the blob is the product of that source.

abjKT26nO8 on Sept 24, 2018 | [–]

This is why there is the "Reproducible Builds"[0] initiative from Debian folks.

[0] https://reproducible-builds.org/

Iolaum on Sept 24, 2018 | [–]

That's true and, to me, has been brought on the spotlight from Microsoft practices around VSCode. On the other hand, for an OSS project, building the binary is not that hard.

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