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Rug pulls, forks, and open-source feudalism

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275 points pabs3 | 2 comments | 06 Sep 25 05:59 UTC | HN request time: 0.403s | source
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3np ◴[06 Sep 25 08:23 UTC] No.45147564[source]▶
Building the software you rely on from source by default is one way to reduce the impact these events have on you and shift the power dynamic. If you're installing binaries/images from a vendor (free or otherwise), transitioning to a fork may be an undertaking and a sweaty risk-assessment.

Switching your existing build-infra to sync sources from a new remote should be a snap.

Also no major need to hound maintainers to ship a release or merge that neglected bugfix or feature you desperately need - just cherry-pick it.

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1. andersmurphy ◴[06 Sep 25 09:16 UTC] No.45147791[source]▶
Not sure why this is getting down votes but I agree. Also building from source doesn't have to be hard (see sqlite).
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2. 3np ◴[06 Sep 25 13:28 UTC] No.45149104[source]▶
> Not sure why this is getting down votes

Guessing unrelated to the comment itself, prolly got a minor downvote army on my back after a different recent comment on Gaza matters.

Downvotes are just a noisy signal in general and I wouldn't read that much into a few here and there, it comes with the territory.

Oh and yeah, this meta makes for tedious threads so site guidelines and all that.