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Not as bad as the fallout is going to be. Already some people are calling for mandatory identification when contributing to open source projects. This will, of
by elric 3y ago
Not as bad as the fallout is going to be. Already some people are calling for mandatory identification when contributing to open source projects. This will, of course, have a chilling effect on FOSS contributions, while it seems unlikely (to me) that this would improve security in any meaningful manner.
- chgs 3y agoThe next step will be no contributions from people from countries like China, Russia, North Korea Won’t stop state actors of course, just normal people (well ok there are only state actors from NK. And exiles)
- funciton 3y agoWho's going to be on the hook for ID verification? Ah, right... Just a thought, making open source maintainers do more unpaid work is probably not the answer to the problem of overworked open source maintainers.