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> It's only a matter of time until it's a critical piece of software that can cripple a nation or beleaguer it's people. Hopefully this pushes more people to u
by excursionist 7y ago
> It's only a matter of time until it's a critical piece of software that can cripple a nation or beleaguer it's people.
Hopefully this pushes more people to use open source software.
- frankharv 7y agoThis is not limited to closed software. Remember the Chef developer who got all political and deleted his github. This is the new norm in software it appears. https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/09/20/chef_roasted_for_ice_dealings/ https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/09/20/chef_roasted_for_ic... Luckily it was something that could be easily remedied.
- excursionist 7y agoThat doesn't seem like as big of a problem, because you, as the user of an open source library, can take steps to prevent such things from affecting you. Most places I've worked at have their own repos with copies of any maven/node/ruby/whatever dependencies used.