Putty maintainer on his attitude towards security and open source

Re:Putty maintainer on his attitude towards security and ope... by arka2147483647 on Sunday December 12, 2021 @04:28PM (#29533798)

This is a nice post from a healthy person who is comfortable with his position, and isn’t overburdened.

However, what would happen if that were not so?

What would happen if he Could not, Would not, or were Unable to work?

It would all fall apart. And that is the inherent fragility in these small critical opensource projects.

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Re:Putty maintainer on his attitude towards security and ope... by aardvark179 on Sunday December 12, 2021 @06:37PM (#29534852)

I think somebody else would pick it up. Simon is not the only person who works on PuTTY and there are several people who might reasonably pick up the security side of things. The various UI bits might be slightly less well distributed, but I am sure somebody could be found in pretty short order.

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Re:Putty maintainer on his attitude towards security and ope... by lolc on Sunday December 12, 2021 @04:43PM (#29533949)

Putty would keep running even if the maintainer disappeared. You can build it yourself. You can find somebody to maintain it for you. What's fragile about that?

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Re:Putty maintainer on his attitude towards security and ope... by nradov on Sunday December 12, 2021 @04:45PM (#29533962)

Or someone else would fork the code, most users would eventually migrate to the new project, and life goes on.

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