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2525 points hownottowrite | 3 comments | 08 Oct 19 09:23 UTC | HN request time: 2.471s | source
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cooperadymas ◴[08 Oct 19 10:21 UTC] No.21190597[source]▶
Is it safe to say we're in the middle of the Software Wars? The headlines have been littered with stories like this lately. From major open source contributors taking down their projects, to Apple, Adobe, and Blizzard.

It's only a matter of time until it's a critical piece of software that can cripple a nation or beleaguer it's people.

If you're looking for positives, maybe this will finally force people to rethink digital ownership.

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1. excursionist ◴[08 Oct 19 13:53 UTC] No.21192293[source]▶
> It's only a matter of time until it's a critical piece of software that can cripple a nation or beleaguer it's people.

Hopefully this pushes more people to use open source software.

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2. frankharv ◴[08 Oct 19 18:01 UTC] No.21195101[source]▶
This is not limited to closed software. Remember the Chef developer who got all political and deleted his github. This is the new norm in software it appears.

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/09/20/chef_roasted_for_ic...

Luckily it was something that could be easily remedied.

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3. excursionist ◴[08 Oct 19 19:07 UTC] No.21195914[source]▶
That doesn't seem like as big of a problem, because you, as the user of an open source library, can take steps to prevent such things from affecting you. Most places I've worked at have their own repos with copies of any maven/node/ruby/whatever dependencies used.