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   ⦺ irick 🐁🐈⚩ (irick@this.mouse.rocks)'s status on Tuesday, 06-Jun-2023 02:36:28 JST ⦺ irick 🐁🐈⚩

   So this hit my feed: https://lowendbox.com/blog/the-deprecated-bloodstained-code-in-the-linux-kernel/

   And it got me thinking about the dynamics around accountability in the Foss world. Is this really 'bloodstained code'? ReiserFS was never hugely popular or anything, but it was an interesting file system largely maintained by a single contributor. That contributor went to prison for a crime of violence.

   I don't really know if that matters morally. If we can accept corporate contributions to the codebase (cont.)