> FOSS was never about trust in software owners. I get what the author is saying, but I think these kinds of originalism arguments are always a bit tedious. Do

> FOSS was never about trust in software owners. I get what the author is saying, but I think these kinds of originalism arguments are always a bit tedious. Do we really think that the original utopian intentions of hackers in the 80s are going to provide us with magical insight into this problem? The context is completely different from anything they would have imagined. Open source / free software isn't a gift from heaven that will work out if you just believe hard enough. The situation described is a new problem, and we have to think hard about how to solve it