I admit it. I’m a dreamer! I’ve been a proponent of open source since early 2000s. Was I actually using open source then, well sometimes. I always dreamed of a year like 2026 where Linux became popular enough that distros are reliable. Where a Windows world is almost obliterated, almost.
Life is a numbers game. We hear it all our lives. Now open source has more numbers than ever. What’s popular is a majority. Majority is a number. There was bound to be bad actors along with all the good. How naive we all are to think someone with a bad disposition wouldn’t create attacks on open source.
Today’s Axios poisoning is an example of the road we’re headed. Open Source is going to need to remain, well, open but less naive that only idealist will us the software.
GitHub is lucky there hasn’t been more poisoning.