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and they aren’t wrong to do so. Browser plug-in author gets bored and sells out customer base is a well tread story. Takeovers of well known packages are anot
by numbsafari 4y ago
and they aren’t wrong to do so.
Browser plug-in author gets bored and sells out customer base is a well tread story.
Takeovers of well known packages are another.
Most of these ecosystems do not offer proper sandboxing for the things we take from them, so it’s easy for things to grow an appendage that abuses our prior assumptions.
Apache’s Java ecosystem is full of consultant abandonware and tripwires.
- kube-system 4y ago> Browser plug-in author gets bored and sells out customer base is a well tread story. Not even just "get bored" but, just a plain matter of incentive. Salaries are a strong incentive against undermining your employer's work. Now, of course, there are people who are incentivized because they are altruistic and good at heart, but that's very difficult to measure. It's much easier to demonstrate aligned interests monetarily.