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This is a nice post from a healthy person who is comfortable with his position, and isn’t overburdened. However, what would happen if that were not so? What w
by arka2147483647 5y ago
This is a nice post from a healthy person who is comfortable with his position, and isn’t overburdened.
However, what would happen if that were not so?
What would happen if he Could not, Would not, or were Unable to work?
It would all fall apart. And that is the inherent fragility in these small critical opensource projects.
- lolc 5y agoPutty would keep running even if the maintainer disappeared. You can build it yourself. You can find somebody to maintain it for you. What's fragile about that?
- nradov 5y agoOr someone else would fork the code, most users would eventually migrate to the new project, and life goes on.
- aardvark179 5y agoI think somebody else would pick it up. Simon is not the only person who works on PuTTY and there are several people who might reasonably pick up the security side of things. The various UI bits might be slightly less well distributed, but I am sure somebody could be found in pretty short order.
- unixbane 5y agothere are between 0 and 1 people in the world who have cohesive understanding of how all the shell, terminal, and stuff between need to interact + the requisite knowledge to know what and what doesn't have security implications DAY OF THE SEAL SOON