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Open source communities depend on a fundamental assumption that is no longer
true: the presumption of good faith actors. The hosts serving free and open
source code are scraped relentlessly, denying service to developers. Once that
code has been assimilated into various models it is washed of all attribution
and license information, denying rights of the developers. Some subset of users
then feel empowered, emboldened, I’m not sure what exactly by these models and
lob massive thousand line changes back at the developers. Nearly every
technology has the possibility to be used for positive and negative effects,
but free and open source communities are being harmed from multiple directions
right now.
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