But, in at least one case—the peacenotwar module in the node-ipc package—an update sabotages npm developers with code intended to wipe data stored in Russia and Belarus. In a March 16 blog post on the malicious code, Liran Tal at Snyk said, “This security incident involves destructive acts of corrupting files on disk by one maintainer and their attempts to hide and restate that deliberate sabotage in different forms.”
This has nothing to do with pace of development, or even the political views of the developers. It has to do with inserting what is essentially malware into open source packages that affect users based on geo-location.
“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience. They may be more likely to go to Heaven yet at the same time likelier to make a Hell of earth. This very kindness stings with intolerable insult. To be "cured" against one's will and cured of states which we may not regard as disease is to be put on a level of those who have not yet reached the age of reason or those who never will; to be classed with infants, imbeciles, and domestic animals.” - C.S. Lewis
Thankfully the field of software development has stagnated to the point that there really hasn't been any significant improvements to actual non-web software in about 15 years, so I'm looking forward to the brand new world with a stack of ancient machines, a bunch of boxes of capacitors, and a few hard drives' worth of abandonware, because frankly, fuck that noise THE AMISH WERE RIGHT.
Either way, I can't see anybody putting "must add a BLM banner to their website" to the licensing conditions of their FOSS code.
Anybody who legitimately makes a "liberals only" stand in their license will get forked and their usage will drop off.
Being silent about shitty behavior is the same as condoning it, don't you know? Just because you don't like the playbook doesn't mean it doesn't work.
>Anybody who legitimately makes a "liberals only" stand in their license will get forked and their usage will drop off.
Considering that the developer just pulled a "no russians" stand with their software...
my point is that it doesn't matter. Condemn or not, regardless you can still fork earlier versions. Materially, it's not a threat to you.
> Considering that the developer just pulled a "no russians" stand with their software...
Yeah and look at how much shit they're catching for it. People are forking and freezing earlier versions, he's getting raked through the coals, etc. Is this really the outcome conservatives are afraid of?
Kind of crappy whataboutism there don't you think? What if I'm a VPN user and my hard drive was wiped?
>Conservatives
What does this have to do with conservatives?
Yeah it obviously sucks to be a victim of this behaviour, but the developer is being roundly condemned by everybody. I thought you were worried about this type of behaviour being encouraged by progressives?
> What does this have to do with conservatives?
Just a guess, it's usually conservatives that hand-wring this much about "woke" people.
> Why do you have to be beholden 3rd party developers and the pace they work at?
You don't "have to", you only are beholden to them if you use their software.