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Re:Finding Critical Open Source Projects by wyldfire on Friday December 11, 2020 @11:21AM (#25387426)
I don't think it's explicit in the article, but that's a comic (XKCD). Relevant discussion [1] suggests that there's not a specific project referenced by the comic.

When I first read this comic, ntpd [2] [3] came to mind.

[1] https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2347:_Dependency#...

[2] https://lwn.net/Articles/701222/

[3] https://lwn.net/Articles/713901/

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Re:Finding Critical Open Source Projects by imglorp on Friday December 11, 2020 @12:23PM (#25388185)
At least NTP is a standard protocol and there are a bunch of cromulent alternatives to the original Mills ntpd. Chrony and ntpsec are both reasonable. If any one of the implementations went away tomorrow, distros would scramble but they'd have a place to go.
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