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this post was submitted on 31 Mar 2024
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Open source is such a wild west at times.
You have your gatekeepers like Linus Torvalds who will call you a fucking moron if you submit something that looks remotely off.
You have your committees that you can submit a MR, but it has to go through the council of experts before it gets merged.
But the vast majority, it's a one or two person project and this was a side project because you had an issue you wanted solved. No financial reward, no acknowledgement. And so when someone gives it a iota of attention, you fall head over heels and hope they are like-minded and want to support this dream too.
Theo is even more strict than Linus.
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The OpenSSH and OpenBSD lead. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theo_de_Raadt