Duck Hunters
Dan Shumway,
Hacker News,
Dec 13, 2021
The context for this untitled post on Hacker News is the failure of Log4j, a Java logging library, due to a zero day vulnerability. Log4j is used in commercial websites around the world, so the flaw is serious, but it's open source, so the story is being presented as (yet another) 'open source is broken' story. This article, for which I've created my own title, is a comment in a Hacker News thread, and it argues that the story is presented incorrectly. "It feels weird to me to have a criticism of corporate behavior where corporations don't know how to ensure the continued success of the commons they build on, and to title this that 'Open Source' is broken," writes Dan Shumway. "If a bunch of hunters go out and shoot all the ducks to extinction, you don't title an article that ducks have failed as a species, you say that duck hunting is a problem." Via Boris Mann. Image: XKCD.
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