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278 points jwilk | 2 comments | | HN request time: 0.568s | source
1. benced ◴[] No.44382578[source]
Do we need a more profound solution than what the maintainer is doing here? Any given bug is either:

a) nonsense in which case nobody should spend any time fixing this (I'm thinking things like the frontend DDOS CVEs that are common) b) an actual problem in which case a compliance person at one of these mega tech companies will tell the engineers it needs to be fixed. If the maintainer refuses to be the person fixing it (a reasonable choice), the mega tech company will eventually just do it.

I suppose the risk is the mega tech company only fixes it for their internal fork.

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2. prmoustache ◴[] No.44388045[source]
> I suppose the risk is the mega tech company only fixes it for their internal fork.

They'd rather send a patch than having to maintain and sync an internal fork with upstream.