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Re: Open Source is one person

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Post by tracker1 »

ChrisMarshallNY wrote: post #33
tarvaina wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

(Off topic.) Not only that, but Linus's parents were politically active communists and young Linus was a pioneer (like a boy scout but for communists). His father also lived in Moscow for several years on two separate occasions.

I don't think Russia (or China, either) has been truly communist, in a long time. Not sure there are any real communist nations left. It's one of those ideologies that looks good on paper, but falls apart, as soon as humans get added to the soup. Idealists never seem to account for base human nature.

Doesn't stop idealists from pushing their new, "real" version of it... or "Rules for radicals" and Maoist inspired updates to Communism along the way.

Re: Open Source is one person

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Post by tracker1 »

idiotsecant wrote: post #118
renewiltord wrote: post #103

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Constitutional democracies with a free market have had a long run so far. We shall see if they last.

Yeah, someone should make one of those. Would be interesting to see how they compare to the current 'free market' 'democracies'.

It'll wind up mired into something close to what we have now before long. "There atta be a law" and "Think of the children"... That said, I'm fairly pragmatic about it... I don't think you can have free markets with nations that heavily manipulate their markets, or significantly different quality of life goals or regulation.

That said, I much prefer the free-er market systems and a constitutional republic over what the Quasi-Mauists seem to be pushing for.

Re: Open Source is one person

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Post by tracker1 »

EdiX wrote: post #115
speakingmoistly wrote: post #3

[Relevant xkcd.]( https://xkcd.com/2347/ ) It's interesting to see the periodic rediscovery of "capitalism + technology relies on unpaid, voluntary labour", or as the author puts it, "Open source, the thing that drives the world, the thing Harvard says has an economic value of 8.8 trillion dollars". The one flaw that I see in the author's analysis though is that they don't seem to account for whether the packages acc…

> capitalism + technology relies on unpaid, voluntary labour You are falling into the breadtube trap of faulting capitalism for a societal issue that has nothing to do with it. Did capitalism force people to have productive hobbies? Would you prefer a system, other than capitalism, that prevented people from having productive hobbies? Often times this error relies on the assumption that capitalism is what's preventin…

I wish I could +1 this many times over. Mozilla and Wikipedia are two great examples of this... so much of the expenses are diverted to busy work and so much less to the added value to society.

Re: Open Source is one person

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Post by firesteelrain »

I can see how the article seemed like an advertisement for Hunted Labs. I have talked to them and it’s a good product especially if you care about where you are getting your software from as part of a supply chain analysis.

Re: Open Source is one person

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Post by pabs3 »

firesteelrain wrote: post #154

I can see how the article seemed like an advertisement for Hunted Labs. I have talked to them and it’s a good product especially if you care about where you are getting your software from as part of a supply chain analysis.

It seemed like an advertisement for the incompetence of Hunted Labs to me, from them:

> "This serves as another powerful reminder that knowing who writes your code is just as critical as understanding what the code does"

If who wrote some code matters to you, then your supply chain management is simply insufficient.

Re: Open Source is one person

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Post by firesteelrain »

pabs3 wrote: post #155
firesteelrain wrote: post #154

I can see how the article seemed like an advertisement for Hunted Labs. I have talked to them and it’s a good product especially if you care about where you are getting your software from as part of a supply chain analysis.

It seemed like an advertisement for the incompetence of Hunted Labs to me, from them: > "This serves as another powerful reminder that knowing who writes your code is just as critical as understanding what the code does" If who wrote some code matters to you, then your supply chain management is simply insufficient.

> If who wrote some code matters to you, then your supply chain management is simply insufficient.

I am not following. Source country is absolutely a thing when certain industries look at open source. That’s what Hunted Labs does

Re: Open Source is one person

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Post by BobbyTables2 »

I wonder. A lot of single person GitHub projects are just people’s “hello world” or other personal experiments. Single file webserver written without “if statements” or other absurdity.

Not sure about NPM but a lot of PyPI projects are likely similar. Just now I hit “browse projects” and got this: https://pypi.org/project/helloworld-eduardo/

Nobody even extremely drunk would even think of using that stuff in a product…

Re: Open Source is one person

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Post by pabs3 »

firesteelrain wrote: post #156
pabs3 wrote: post #155

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It seemed like an advertisement for the incompetence of Hunted Labs to me, from them: > "This serves as another powerful reminder that knowing who writes your code is just as critical as understanding what the code does" If who wrote some code matters to you, then your supply chain management is simply insufficient.

> If who wrote some code matters to you, then your supply chain management is simply insufficient. I am not following. Source country is absolutely a thing when certain industries look at open source. That’s what Hunted Labs does

Its completely irrelevant if you are doing things properly.

Re: Open Source is one person

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Post by shark1 »

int_19h wrote: post #142
shark1 wrote: post #66

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Yeah, the subtle way to plant an idea. It's a crime again to a person have "certain nationalities".

The real concern isn't the nationality per se, it's the vulnerability to blackmail by the state that has jurisdiction over you. It's not a matter of personal responsibility, but nevertheless it has to be accounted for. For example, I am an American citizen, but I have extended family in Russia, and I would fully expect a place like DoD to be wary of that solely on the basis that it makes me susceptible to blackmail b…

Yes, I know. My point is that writers could easily do it better.

Re: Open Source is one person

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Post by wolvesechoes »

EdiX wrote: post #115
speakingmoistly wrote: post #3

[Relevant xkcd.]( https://xkcd.com/2347/ ) It's interesting to see the periodic rediscovery of "capitalism + technology relies on unpaid, voluntary labour", or as the author puts it, "Open source, the thing that drives the world, the thing Harvard says has an economic value of 8.8 trillion dollars". The one flaw that I see in the author's analysis though is that they don't seem to account for whether the packages acc…

> capitalism + technology relies on unpaid, voluntary labour You are falling into the breadtube trap of faulting capitalism for a societal issue that has nothing to do with it. Did capitalism force people to have productive hobbies? Would you prefer a system, other than capitalism, that prevented people from having productive hobbies? Often times this error relies on the assumption that capitalism is what's preventin…

It is funny how you recognize the "breadtube trap", yet you are so invested in the "no alternative" ideology.
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