Dropbox no longer follows symlinks to items outside of your Dropbox account

Re:Dropbox no longer follows symlinks to items outside of yo... by sebst on Saturday August 31, 2019 @07:38AM (#20845731)

> How is an official conference organized by the project itself "free time" and not related to the project?

I'm not saying that it is not related to the project. I'm saying that they are conducting the project in their free time.

> Open source is also about open community.

If you see how different people talk about their "tech stacks" (i.e. talk to a node module maintainer and a kernel hacker and you'll see the differences), it is a misconception that there is "one" open source community. Luckily, there are many.

> I know I wouldn’t feel comfortable contributing to it

Then don't. It would even understand if you'd advise people to avoid such conferences. But advising people, i.e. non involved end users, not to use the software is a bit far.

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Re:Dropbox no longer follows symlinks to items outside of yo... by Dylan16807 on Saturday August 31, 2019 @08:12AM (#20845844)

> it is a misconception that there is "one" open source community. Luckily, there are many.

Yeah, that's the point. That the community around this particular software has a rotten core.

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Re:Dropbox no longer follows symlinks to items outside of yo... by kuschku on Saturday August 31, 2019 @07:42AM (#20845747)

The whole point of using free software — as you said yourself — is the ability to inspect and improve it.

If improving that software is not possible in the same way as with other projects, which it is with suckless for some kind of people, then using the software is impacted by that.

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