No ransom. This might be someone’s hobby project but it is dangerous, or will be, to the handful of dweeby, fake-ripped broligarchs that want to control ALL of our conversations.
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Vent@lemm.ee 1 month agoLol, and what would the ransom be for taking down someone’s money-burning hobby project?
modifier@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
balder1991@lemmy.world 1 month ago
For c example, some conspiracy theories say that FOSS maintainers being trash talked and having their families threatened online might be state actors trying to get them to give up the project so that someone else can continue it and insert vulnerabilities.
catloaf@lemm.ee 1 month ago
The lulz
Flagstaff@programming.dev 1 month ago
Well, there was an article I read elsewhere on Lemmy that said that FOSS is an enemy of capitalism by being a cheaper competitor, so capitalist dogs may try to attack FOSS developers’ resources and willpower to keep going so they can funnel all of us users over to their paid products.