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Yep -- I don't want this post to be read as a dictum, but as an identification of a conflict between two principles the OSS communities generally tries to uphol
by woodruffw 4y ago
Yep -- I don't want this post to be read as a dictum, but as an identification of a conflict between two principles the OSS communities generally tries to uphold: we all generally agree that (1) we should be able to do whatever we like with free and open software, and (2) that maintainers are not responsible for what we do, or for fixing our problems.
Open source ate the world, which has meant a heavy lilt towards (1): we see people go out and do stuff without questioning the underlying design and system invariants that made a piece of open source software secure and desirable in the first place. That ends up eroding (2); I'd like to see us rebalance a bit back towards maintainers' interests.