• manxu@piefed.social
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    5 days ago

    I fully agree, although I do have to wonder how frequently these gratuitous attacks are astroturfed and paid for.

    If you can get rid of a pesky open source competitor by paying off some troll to make unsubstantiated accusations and personal attacks, it’s a great investment. Especially if the rest of the open source world doesn’t come to the rescue and supports the open source developer vocally.

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      5 days ago

      Unfortunately I really don’t think they are. Maybe it’s a small part of it, but it feels like there are a lot of similar social issues that follow the same pattern

      I feel like it’s tempting to just tell ourselves it’s an outside evil, but I don’t think that helps us do anything about the problem