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How do we accomplish that without an army of lobbyists?

• kanzure 4y ago
  Major corporations have entire strategies built around open-source, with many household names that you know (Facebook, Microsoft, Google, ...). According to random estimates on the internet, open-source software is a $50 billion annual market. There's enough "there" there to get you something.
• ForHackernews 4y ago
  Hold the entire world's technology industry hostage. Nice multi-billion dollar business you got there, be a real shame if somebody started introducing subtly-breaking bugs into that critical library you use, wouldn't it?
  • kanzure 4y ago
    Well, extortion and blackmail isn't exactly a way of further legitimizing open-source software development.
    • ForHackernews 4y ago
      Works for the copyright industry, doesn't it?
    • voakbasda 4y ago
      What exactly do you think the legal process accomplishes, when you have a bad actor with deep pockets that sues people that do not have equal means to defend themselves?
  • nateb2022 4y ago
    I can guarantee you that the Big Tech that does use open source takes a number of measures against this. They usually maintain a fork against the upstream repository, for one. There is no case where you could commit code to an open source library and immediately have it affect any Big Tech code.
    • ForHackernews 4y ago
      Haha, c'mon now https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heartbleed https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heartbleed https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2008/05/random_number_b.html https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2008/05/random_number... I can keep going. The notion that big tech has the time or inclination to rigorously audit all the free software they're using is absolutely laughable.