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moron4hire on May 28, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: GIMP-Win project wasn’t hijacked, just abandoned

So the answer is "trust"? We're supposed to just trust Canonical, the company that put Amazon ads in our desktop search, to not figure out they could put adware in their package repository?

JoshTriplett on May 28, 2015 | [–]

I wouldn't. But I'd trust Debian.

SwellJoe on May 28, 2015 | | [–]

And, I would trust Fedora (which has similarly stringent Open Source guidelines for inclusion).

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