In this specific case this is a good thing. The new vulnerability in xz was shocking - imagine a malicious actor login to every Fedora, Debian and Ubuntu box on the internet.
Andres Freund from Microsoft found this. By now, humanity relies 100% on engineers at big tech checking FOSS for funsies on company time
In this case it might have been a good thing - but notice how fast Microsoft can just command their will? Even if this way of distribution is easily circumventable, this way of distribution is powerful
Woah! Bad actors have come to Github now.
I can only say that they must be the discarded employees from Google, Microsoft, Meta or any other company that codes in closed doors.
Awake, I hail the devils of open coding heaven a k.a. GitHub, throw away the nasty good looking hypocriteez and claim what's yours.
So three things:
Solid points
And a reminder to malicious actors (as well as the rest of us) to get off github 😅
I agree MS distribution is powerful but I suspect their sustainability.
Woah! Bad actors have come to Github now. I can only say that they must be the discarded employees from Google, Microsoft, Meta or any other company that codes in closed doors.
Awake, I hail the devils of open coding heaven a k.a. GitHub, throw away the nasty good looking hypocriteez and claim what's yours.