nixCraft 🐧Dec 30

User: Hi! I'd like a wake up call.

Hotel front desk: The entire modern web infrastructure you rely on is held together by a handful of volunteer run opensource projects, and if one lead maintainer decides to delete their repository today, the global economy would stall by noon.

Show threadCount HoldemDec 30

@nixCraft So the 99.999% need the .001% #Oligarchy #TechBros to survive.

Gotcha.

Show threadJoe ❌👑
@CountHoldem @nixCraft We aren't talking about wealthy oligarchical billionaires here. We are talking about volunteer programmers making basically no money who have been maintaining basic, unglamorous software components that you, I, and the oligarchs rely on. This isn't Atlas Shrugged here.
Dec 30 at 5:20pmWeb
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@not2b @nixCraft So no room for more eloquent distribution of accountability, at... ANY scale?

Quite dire.