@lpryszcz I can't even begin to guess. I think people largely underestimate effect of the cultural momentum behind open source software - people shared because they believed in the act, not because there was a payoff or there was a perfectly logical reason to do so.

I feel like that sort of trust in the commons and technological literacy isn't as widespread now. How do we inherit a culture?

There's one maintainer for sudo, I guess I really shouldn't be surprised. Much of open source infrastructure was funded by people being able to maintain stable jobs and have some spare time, something we can't take for granted in the future.

Also thinking more and more projects are growing scale and complexity. I wonder what the solution is.

Sudo's maintainer needs resources to keep utility updated • The Register

https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/03/sudo_maintainer_asks_for_help/