⚙️ Imagine all #FOSS projects taking a one-week break at the same time.
🔒 No one reviewing or fixing #security bugs in #curl, the #Linux kernel, #Firefox, #Tor, ...
📦 🌑 #Codeberg and #Forgejo going dark. #Debian and #Arch mirrors disappearing. #PyPI, #npm, #crates.io, #docker. #CI pipelines stopping.
Just thinking. ❤️
Quite the sales pitch for FOSS, isn't it? It can't happen because there is no central authority that could mandate such a thing, and even if someone tried, stakeholders would step in to fill the gap because users can also be contributors.
Compare this to Microsoft or Solarwinds zero-days, in which users are at the mercy of corporate single points of failure. Or even just not-as-community-minded Linux distros, like Ubuntu, which suffered a DDOS attack.
FOSS is just better, this way.
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