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Todd C. Miller – Sudo maintainer for over 30 years

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Re: Todd C. Miller – Sudo maintainer for over 30 years

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Post by kristopolous »

whatis991 wrote: post #97
kristopolous wrote: post #93

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I really think that criminal theory needs to progress. We differentiate between say consensual intimacy and rape and we don't let the existence of sexual abusive people set the terms for our romantic encounters. We have carved out a class of engagements, labeled it deeply asocial, criminalized it and now we pursue people who engage in it through legal means. Business really doesn't have this. Personal example - last…

Does your country allow suing him for a large monetary amount? Have you talked to the media? A lawyer? Maybe together with others? Made it as easy as possible for the police to get him, paper trail, receipts and all? You do have points, though, but there might at least be some actions that you and others can take in this case. Maybe a medium change like changing the law on this specific point might make sense.

I'm not law enforcement. This shouldn't be my job. If I see someone robbing a store with a mask on and a gun I should be able to call the police, report it, and hand it off.

If there's an accumulation of complaints against this merchant then that should warrant an investigation.

The police have like half the local city budget, can't they do their job?

Re: Todd C. Miller – Sudo maintainer for over 30 years

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Post by noosphr »

saubeidl wrote: post #121
noosphr wrote: post #101

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Whenever people say that MIT or GPL licenses are a good idea I point out projects like this. Only humans should have freedom zero. Corporations and robots must pay.

The GPL is a good idea. It's our socieconomic system that isn't.

Everything is a good idea if you assume a world in which it works.

Re: Todd C. Miller – Sudo maintainer for over 30 years

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Post by catdog »

asveikau wrote: post #34
SoftTalker wrote: post #24

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Why should something like sudo not be "done" after 30 years? Sudo is one of the poster children for creeping featuritis, to the point that the sudoers man page is a meme ("Don't despair if you are unfamiliar with EBNF ...") Even OpenBSD gave up and implmented their own simplified replacement (doas).

This community and others like it are so weird in that if they see something as stable as sudo but without recent commits, rather than conclude that it's solid and doesn't need further changes, they see it as some kind of a problem and want to switch to something that's seen major changes in the last week. Maybe that's somehow related to why so many companies are shoving AI into a bunch of stuff that doesn't need it.…

The thing is, there is next to no software that "doesn't need further changes" at all. There is always something, sure it might be infrequent and/or most of the time nothing really big or difficult (except sometimes) but the point is: someone needs to step up and do it.

If a see a project with recent activity, best from multiple people it is a strong signal that this will happen, if the last commit is a year ago I must assume it's completely abandoned because most of the time it just is. Sometimes it's clearly communicated that it is the way because the authors see it as essentially feature complete, there are some examples of this but not that many honestly.

Re: Todd C. Miller – Sudo maintainer for over 30 years

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Post by saubeidl »

fragmede wrote: post #136
noosphr wrote: post #134

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Everything is a good idea if you assume a world in which it works.

Communism has entered the chat.

That, for example, would be a better system. One the GPL would work beautifully in.

Re: Todd C. Miller – Sudo maintainer for over 30 years

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Post by sixtyj »

noosphr wrote: post #101
OsamaJaber wrote: post #27

30+ years maintaining one of the most critical pieces of infrastructure on nearly every Linux and Unix system, and he's currently looking for a sponsor to fund continued development. Every company running sudo in production owes this man. Someone should fix that

Whenever people say that MIT or GPL licenses are a good idea I point out projects like this. Only humans should have freedom zero. Corporations and robots must pay.

The behavior of corporations is shameful.

After all, people in these companies don't work for free and are able to spend a lot of money for other services.

Re: Todd C. Miller – Sudo maintainer for over 30 years

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Post by aftbit »

einsteinx2 wrote: post #114
aftbit wrote: post #100

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It almost seems like someone ought to be able to build some kind of digital currency with low transaction fees and no centralized payment processor that could power microtransactions. I wonder why nobody has done that yet.

I know crypto was supposed to solve this problem, but I’ve never seen an implementation that actually did the job. You’d think someone would have built a successful “Patreon for micropayments” in the past 10 years, but no one has.

Yeah I think the problem is that most of the main chains had astronomical transaction fees; most of the side chains that solved this problem had a trust problem; and Bitcoin Lightning was sorta dead on arrival, though it had both the trust and the technology solution. At that point, this forum had already moved BTC from "amazing new technology" to "huge threat to social order and environment".

Re: Todd C. Miller – Sudo maintainer for over 30 years

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Post by throw0101c »

noosphr wrote: post #101
OsamaJaber wrote: post #27

30+ years maintaining one of the most critical pieces of infrastructure on nearly every Linux and Unix system, and he's currently looking for a sponsor to fund continued development. Every company running sudo in production owes this man. Someone should fix that

Whenever people say that MIT or GPL licenses are a good idea I point out projects like this. Only humans should have freedom zero. Corporations and robots must pay.

> Corporations and robots must pay.

Greenpeace is a (non-profit) corporation. Unions are corporations. Municipalities. Colleges and universities.

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_person

Should they have to pay?

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