Re:Rug pulls, forks, and open-source feudalism
by dapperdrake on Saturday September 06, 2025 @08:57AM
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And this has always depended on hardware and never really software.
Re:Rug pulls, forks, and open-source feudalism
by DaSHacka on Saturday September 06, 2025 @11:37AM
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"The issue you care about is toxic. You should care about the issue I care about instead!"
Re:Rug pulls, forks, and open-source feudalism
by cycomanic on Saturday September 06, 2025 @03:57PM
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That's misinterpreting what the previous poster is saying. They are saying that hyperscalers owning significant portions of the Internet (and using lots of projects without giving back) is a bigger threat to the sustainability of OSS.
Now I would argue that the sustainability of OSS is more important at least in the context of an lwn article. That doesn't mean one can not argue that rug pulls are the bigger threat, but that's not what you accused the previous poster off.
Re:Rug pulls, forks, and open-source feudalism
by socalgal2 on Saturday September 06, 2025 @07:04PM
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which hyperscalers are we talking about specifically? Microsoft, Google, Apple, Facebook, all gives tons of open source support. I think Amazon does too but less familar. So who are these hyperscalers you're claiming don't give back?
This open source purism is toxic. Projects have to be sustainable.
Hyperscalers have hoovered up the entire Internet and own the entire mobile device category. We're over here bickering about small developers writing source available / OSS-with-CLA.
If the community cares so damned much, they can take the last open version and maintain it themselves.
Please take all of this negative energy and fight for a breakup of big tech instead.