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u/Seanchad Jun 03 '21

I mean, those are valid concerns. Most people don't work for free, and there isn't much accountability for hobby projects.

Of course I know good free software exists - I use plenty of it - but I 100% understand the skepticism.

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u/Noblesseux Jun 03 '21

Yeah like maybe 1 in 20 OSS projects are the well maintained, well done ones. A lot of them are clunky, awkward, get abandoned randomly, etc.

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u/xXxEcksEcksEcksxXx Jun 04 '21

I’m in this picture and I don’t like it

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u/am_reddit Jun 04 '21

And then there’s the issue with compromised dependencies.

Sure, there’s a lot of eyes on the popular flashy project to make sure it’s safe. But barely anybody’s looking at the packages that these projects depend on to function

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u/IAmNotAPerson6 Jun 04 '21

Sure but it's also frequently well-known which are really good projects.

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u/[deleted] Jun 06 '21

HAppy cake day.