Then you have someone to blame for sponsoring an exploit vs some unsponsored person who identified the same exploit patched it, and no one bothered to check eit

Then you have someone to blame for sponsoring an exploit vs some unsponsored person who identified the same exploit patched it, and no one bothered to check either way. I guess I got lucky never trusting Mint. I did trust Slackware, because I knew someone who trusted Pat V. I guess I also need to rub shoulders with Linux maintainers vs people like Marc Andressen. I did meet RMS, but he has no personality. Woz? Wolfram? Anna V? I met the SUSE people, and one of the RedHat maintainers, who gave me a tee-shirt, a poster, two bumper stickers, and the latest distribution of RedHat. It was easier a decade ago... Despite the amount of brilliance here, again, we never have had a single meet and greet.