Mike McQuaid on Nostr: Your belated reminder, in the aftermath of the xz backdoor, that open source ...
Your belated reminder, in the aftermath of the xz backdoor, that open source maintainers owe you nothing: https://mikemcquaid.com/open-source-maintainers-owe-you-nothing/
Not only do they owe you nothing but: if they are running a large open source project at scale and have been doing so for a while: in almost every case they know vastly more about doing so than almost anyone else in the world does.
Open source users and contributors: show some more gratitude and, frankly, deference to the maintainers who keep OSS alive.
Not only do they owe you nothing but: if they are running a large open source project at scale and have been doing so for a while: in almost every case they know vastly more about doing so than almost anyone else in the world does.
Open source users and contributors: show some more gratitude and, frankly, deference to the maintainers who keep OSS alive.