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The Xz Backdoor Highlights the Vulnerability of Open Source Software—and Its Strengths
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this post was submitted on 31 Mar 2024
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we should bake something like that in whenever we feel like doing GPLv5 or something.
"free for people, paid for corpos" or something
exactly. I dont understand why FOSS means "go make billions with it, i'll chew a rock"
It's basically what Redis, ElasticSearch, and others have started doing, but people living in fairytale land are throwing a fit because "iT's NoT frEe!!11!1"
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Because when projects do it everyone runs away, forks are made, and everyone hates the developers because it's "not open source anymore".