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Darryl Yeo 🛠️
@darrylyeo
Imagine if GitHub or npm took control of your open-source project, republished it as their own, gaslit all your users into thinking it’s a security update, then extorted you for money because they don’t like your business practices. This just happened with the WordPress plug-in registry and WP Engine (one of the most commercially successful WordPress hosts), and lots of customers and mom-and-pop shops are getting caught in the crossfire. Matt Mullenweg, successful as he is, is setting a terrible precedent for open-source software and needs to step down from WordPress and Automattic immediately. https://world.hey.com/dhh/open-source-royalty-and-mad-kings-a8f79d16
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3070 ✅
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have you looked into Radicle? it tackles this issue head-on. funny cos they released 1.0 not long ago https://radicle.xyz/2024/09/10/radicle-1.0.html
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Darryl Yeo 🛠️
@darrylyeo
I’ve yet to dive into it! Though I think /radicle is focused on the problem of publishing of the source code itself, as opposed to the build artifacts which you’d find in a registry like npm or the App Store and which may or may not be derived from open-source code
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