@drahardja FOSS projects need to value user feedback, otherwise you might as well be serving just yourself. Yes.

But I'd be very hesitant to call maintainers.. abusers? Often there will be legitimate disagreements about the direction of a project, and then it is completely fair that those who do the maintenance get to have the final say.

If a user doesn't like that, they'll have to keep using older versions or a fork. That's just how it is.

@grote wow. for a second i thought this was satire, but then i clicked on the link and it's literally as you say.

why do i have a feeling this is not really about security?

@kimapr it's primarily that this problem exploits a bug in the intuition of many people.

(whether the solution be presented by a man or woman. i guess being a woman at the time didn't help, but i doubt that it was the deciding factor.)

@lizzy perhaps most importantly, i would not mistake the quote to mean "the US and Iran are equally bad" (by whichever measure), which is a fairly ill-posed question (from which perspective?). "the same" is meant qualitatively.

really the statement is just: the individual people of conflicting states tend to have much more in common, and get along much better, than their respective governments. and that suggests a failure in how our systems work: clearly that can't be the will of the people.