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woodruffw ◴[] No.45891521[source]
I’m an open source maintainer, so I empathize with the sentiment that large companies appear to produce labor for unpaid maintainers by disclosing security issues. But appearance is operative: a security issue is something that I (as the maintainer) would need to fix regardless of who reports it, or would otherwise need to accept the reputational hit that comes with not triaging security reports. That’s sometimes perfectly fine (it’s okay for projects to decide that security isn’t a priority!), but you can’t have it both ways.
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1. m463 ◴[] No.45891749[source]
if you've ever read about codependency, "need" is a relative term.

codependency is when someone accepts too much responsibility, in particular responsibility for someone else or other things out of their control.

the answer is to have a "healthy neutrality".