[PLUG] Gratitude

[Tejas Sanap]

Hi folks,

I'm pretty sure most of us have heard the news of the maintainer of Curl
receiving hate mail[1], by now.

But, this incident shows the in general ingratitude that certain users
show towards the free/open-source software that they use.

Albeit, this kind of users are a very small minority, it shows that
there is scope for improvement, in how we communicate the way open
source works.

Most live/prod systems that are running on linux, are an amalgamation of
a multiple open-source projects and we cannot blame one for the failure
of another, nor can we blame the incorrect use of a particular software
because most things have very sensible default configs.

When preparing such complicated prod environments, it makes sense to
have an *open-source security check-list*. 

[1]: https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2021/02/19/i-will-slaughter-you/

-- 
Tejas Sanap.
(whereistejas on Freenode)
https://whereistejas.github.io