Post · Bonfire social

I don't know why this is a hot take on open source, but apparently it is, so I'm going for it.

If you own a package manager for an ecosystem as a for-profit company, literally your one job is to make sure that your product model is sustainable for your business model. That's it. That's what you signed up for.

I don't want to hear about sustainability and "the commons" from literal technical private domain landholders who are complaining that the business model they are selling isn't profiting enough.

#OpenSource #HotTake

Madame Pres commandasaurus 🦖

@amcasari@hachyderm.io replied · 6 days ago

Related - for any company worried about the coming "vulnpacolypse" - I have good news!

Due to incredibly over leveraged and under planned circumstances for years, SO MANY of the very people who build and deployed today's modern Internet at scale to be resilient, secure, and more safe, are available for hire!

You too can rebuild your Security and SRE teams to enforce some super cost efficient practices and frameworks, such as knowing what softwares you actually depend on for your 💰💰💰💰 to flow.

For the low low price of "Actually Hiring People to Keep Your Business Secure Against Known Challenges", you too will prevent future chances of being hauled in front of a legislative body to account for your choices!!!

Madame Pres commandasaurus 🦖

@amcasari@hachyderm.io replied · 6 days ago

If you like these, wait until I write about my thoughts on "The Hard Fork" and who needs to come save us....

(It's us. We are already here. We talk. It's not fine, but it's also not a One Saviour to Rule Them All moment)