Todd C. Miller has been maintaining the #sudo codebase for over 30 years.
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Todd C. Miller has been maintaining the #sudo codebase for over 30 years. This is exactly one of those cases where an entire critical infrastructure is held together by the work of a single volunteer who apparently can’t find anyone willing to sponsor him for some financial support. #opensource #linux #foss #GNU
@pafurijaz The discussion of monetary support is missing the point.
If he's been supporting it for 30+ years, he is probably 50+ and due to retire sometime soon.
So what happens if he falls ill, or (hopefully not) dies? -
@rastilin @pafurijaz I don't see a likelihood of users or corporations being willing to pay for open source. If payment changes hands, that's a contract. And I'm sure that everyone wants a contract that protects them from anything that might go wrong.
@egoldblatt @rastilin @pafurijaz
IANAL, but I suspect in a lot of jurisdictions, if you charge for the software, you can't "disclaim the implied warranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose", as GPL has it.
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