Imagine being faced with the current capitalist hellscape of privacy invading enshittified proprietary platforms that are built almost solely to extract profit, and then taking your time and energy to attack open source software instead. Guys, what are we doing. Why are we doing this. Why is it so common this post could be about like a dozen different people and projects. C’mon

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Long live punk software devs fighting the corporate bloodsuckers.

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Also anyone saying open source isn't political is wrong.

@danirabbit Preach, sister! 🗣️

I don't think most people have any idea just how shoestring FOSS is. Even when it is "well funded", we're often working with 10% the resources of the corporate teams. Often times it's literally just some person doing a thing.

@highvoltage extremely not the point

@gfxstrand @danirabbit 💯% Case in point: OpenSSL - started and maintained by two guys named Steve.

Buzzfeed published an article about this here:
https://4d2.link/7hp9w

Since then, they have handed off the project to 7 other developers, but thinking of how the entire security of the web is dependent on TLS and thus OpenSSL, it's staggering to think about.

Vice's article expounded on the situation here:
https://4d2.link/x2555

@alienghic @danirabbit hear hear!

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@alienghic @danirabbit yeah. Free Software is more political though.