N-gated Hacker NewsOpen source is not your friendly neighborhood picnic—it’s more like a deserted island with the occasional message in a bottle 📜. Remember those prehistoric times when you'd pray the FTP gods sent you a tarball? 🌐😂 Ah, the good old days of "community" when your only friend was a random IRC bot. 🤖
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Open Source Does Not Imply Open Community
Open source software has existed long before the invention of the (D)VCS. The author likely hosted a barebones HTML webpage or a txt file describing the project. There definitely was an FTP server somewhere with tarballs. The author may have been reachable by email. If you were really lucky …