Jonathan YuMar 6, 2025
@neil @hazelweakly LMAO, do people just share https://www.softwaremaxims.com/blog/not-a-supplier by @Di4na, or ...?
I am not a supplier

For the past few years, we have seen a lot of discussions around the concept of the Software Supply Chain. These discussions started around the time of LeftPad and escalated with multiple incidents in the past few years. The problem of all the work in this domain is that it forgets a fundamental point.

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Show threadThomas Depierre
@jawnsy @neil @hazelweakly i have gotten a few emails from readers around this kind of stuff since I published it indeed
Mar 7, 2025 at 6:55amWeb
Show threadchxMar 7, 2025
@Di4na @jawnsy @neil @hazelweakly " You are not buying from a supplier, you are a raccoon digging through dumpsters for free code. So I would advise you to put these rules in the same dumpst" this is sheer gold, congrats.
Show threadThe Long TailMar 8, 2025
@chx @Di4na @jawnsy @neil @hazelweakly "When we talk about Free Software, an important freedom that is hardly ever discussed is the freedom from obligation that the author has from anyone that should choose to use that software. They don't owe you anything."
https://gist.github.com/sleepyfox/eaa8ef6bb7aca886aef6e6f95406f71b
ObFOSScation - why FOSS means more than you think it does

ObFOSScation - why FOSS means more than you think it does - 2024-10-15-obfosscation.md

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