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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
#222https://github.com/sponsors/sudo-project Can donate there. My bank account is basically empty but I will contribute a few bucks.
Contributed immediately.
Thanks to sudo-rs: this stolen valor project made me want to financially support the original author.
Re: Todd C. Miller – Sudo maintainer for over 30 years
#223Does he live in Nevada, by chance?
Re: Todd C. Miller – Sudo maintainer for over 30 years
#224Earlier quoted context omitted.
Seriously, just put a VAT on digital services to fund a system that pays out grants to individuals to help maintain open source software. It should be obvious by now that corporations will rat fuck the commons for monetary gain and there is a serious need for democratic initiatives to put technology back into the hands of the people.
I would like to live in this utopia where free software is funded by the state. This seems impossible to get implemented in our world though.
The EU does fund a lot of open source software.
Re: Todd C. Miller – Sudo maintainer for over 30 years
#225Reading the release history[1]. I'm kind of shocked that sudo gets active development and monthly releases. I would have thought that something this old and venerated would have been "done" long ago. 1: https://www.sudo.ws/releases/devel/
"Done" software is a myth they tell to young developers so that they can sleep easy at night.
Absolutely false. I have built tons of tools which are feature complete and continue to work to this day without intervention. Heck, I even have tools I no longer use that people asked me to keep available because they do, and they’ve been chugging along for over a decade, no bugs or maintenance necessary.
Just today I saw a report of Adobe discontinuing a tool in use by professionals because it is done and they don’t know what else to add.
https://mastodon.social/@grishka/116005782128372247
“Software is never done” is a myth they tell to keep extracting money from you.
A lot of the time, failing to to finish software indicates a badly defined scope.
Re: Todd C. Miller – Sudo maintainer for over 30 years
#226Re: Todd C. Miller – Sudo maintainer for over 30 years
#227Earlier quoted context omitted.
That, for example, would be a better system. One the GPL would work beautifully in.
If you can't explain why it did not work in the past, and can't explain how & why things will be different this time, you don't have a plan. History is a harsh mistress.
Communism worked in China, for some definition of "worked". Stalinism eventually failed in the USSR and elsewhere. An extensive literature explains these things, as well as explaining different forms and varieties of "communism", and things that people call "communism" but aren't.
Re: Todd C. Miller – Sudo maintainer for over 30 years
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That, for example, would be a better system. One the GPL would work beautifully in.
As a person who had a privilege to live in a commie-block half his life, no, it isn't a better system.
That was Stalinism, not communism. And there are many ways to implement communism, some of which are better than others.
Re: Todd C. Miller – Sudo maintainer for over 30 years
#229Earlier quoted context omitted.
"Done" software is a myth they tell to young developers so that they can sleep easy at night.
Absolutely false. I have built tons of tools which are feature complete and continue to work to this day without intervention. Heck, I even have tools I no longer use that people asked me to keep available because they do, and they’ve been chugging along for over a decade, no bugs or maintenance necessary. Just today I saw a report of Adobe discontinuing a tool in use by professionals because it is done and they don’…
That tool, BTW, is essentially the authoring side of Flash rebranded.
Re: Todd C. Miller – Sudo maintainer for over 30 years
#230Earlier quoted context omitted.
Something's deeply wrong here.
Things have changed quite a bit in the past 30 years! I encourage you to peek at their changelog ( https://www.sudo.ws/releases/changelog/ ) for more insight into why this project is still under active development.
I just learned about amathia (https://modernstoicism.com/there-is-nothing-banal-about-phil...), which seems to apply here.