What sort of accountability can be gained by knowing someone’s identity in a case like that?
What sort of accountability can be gained by knowing someone’s identity in a case like that?
Web browsers are also a rare class of software with high complexity and also high privilege (considering the data that typically passes through them), so perhaps higher scrutiny of this class of software is warranted.
Which one do you choose?
And if both do that, have same features, work the same, etc., no other difference, then I'll take the smaller one - because the larger one most probably includes something I don't want, even if it's just bloat or inefficient code.
For me, he lost his credibility, when, with childish "historical" arguments, he choose to ban russian developers from the linux kernel. Can we still trust him to not insert a backdoor in the kernel, "to fight the russians" ?
An anonymous individual might also have multiple anonymous accounts, for example. Without that anonymity, other projects might ban their contributions, and users might not use their software.