After the recent xz-utils attack, guess what was the response some developers thought of? 9to5 Linux, Phoronix
Instead of helping Lasse Collin, the xz-utils maintainer who was tricked and mentally abused, they jumped ship, because the new solution is "more dependable". Wow, I applaud for this stupidity.
Let's shift our gaze somewhere else a bit. netfilter, the management framework of network operations on Linux that's used by virtually every Linux distribution, effectively only has Pablo Neira Ayuso left to maintain the project after Florian Westphal quit the core team. strace only has Dmitry V. Levin there to keep the cogs running. tcpdump and libpcap have only very few people to maintain the lights. And Bash should probably get abandoned with the few people there to keep everything up. The list goes on and on, because this is the freaking norm!
With the current mindset, support of any form, be it encouragement, financial support or contributing, is way too expensive for anyone to give out. I suggest just don't offer the maintainers the love and help they deserve, and speed up the downfall of the current landscape.
To every FOSS developer out there who has been thanklessly maintaining projects, please accept my deepest gratitude. However, to those who either shifted the blame to the xz-utils project and Lasse Collin, or jumped ship because xz-utils is deemed "unsafe" by you, I have two words most suitable for you: FUCK YOU. 🖕🏼
❄️ The NixOS Foundation's Call to Action: S3 Costs Require Community Support
"The LogicBlox team (which has since been acquired by Infor) has been providing significant support to the Nix ecosystem by sponsoring our S3 buckets. They have asked to transfer the ownership of the costs and give us a good heads up (timeline discussed below). We are now working on transferring the expenses/ownership to the foundation."