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“the lesson I'm choosing to take from xz, as an oss maintainer, is that anyone trying to pressure or guilt me into doing something should immediately be told no, for security reasons” (crabby.fyi)

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[–] Fave@lemmy.world 17 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

It is way more complicated than that. Very good explanation, I could never do it justice.

Edit: I found an even better one https://robmensching.com/blog/posts/2024/03/30/a-microcosm-of-the-interactions-in-open-source-projects/

[–] KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 5 months ago

i know it's rather involved, i've been tailing it from the sidelines, though like i said, i am not a developer, so in terms of code and maintaining code im blind there. But everything else i understand.

It's definitely an interesting situation to observe.