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Re:I no longer trust The Great Suspender by bombcar on Wednesday January 20, 2021 @05:38PM (#25852906)
I feel there's a moneymaker here - create a popular open source extension, sell it off when you get a good deal, fork the code and let everyone find out the old version is "evil".
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Re:I no longer trust The Great Suspender by _carbyau_ on Wednesday January 20, 2021 @09:56PM (#25854782)
"Trust for software" is largely reputation based - I don't have the time to read all the code to Blender; I trust that Blender.Org people are Nice TM or that at least someone Nice TM has read the code.

Once you burn your reputation by "selling out" the first time. Who will trust your new forked version?

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