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   Luis Villa (luis_in_brief@social.coop)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Nov-2024 12:38:44 JST Luis Villa

   I’ve told LF (and others) repeatedly that “education” as the leading point is insulting. Many maintainers know exactly what they need to do, but they lack time and energy for it. Lecturing them, I mean “giving them skills”, is… rarely the need or solution.

   But “education” allows LF (and friends like GH) to continue elephant-in-the-room-ing the actual solution, which is paying maintainers for the trillions of dollars of value they create.

   https://fosstodon.org/@donmccurdy/113512775802077660

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     Josh Bressers (joshbressers@infosec.exchange)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Nov-2024 12:39:22 JST Josh Bressers

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     @luis_in_brief this is the phishing training of the open source world

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     Luis Villa (luis_in_brief@social.coop)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Nov-2024 13:23:28 JST Luis Villa

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     Or to put it a different way: open source maintainers are one of the most verifiably self-taught people in the history of the world, *when they want to be*. Happy to dig into tools, Google, books, mailing list archives, source code, stack traces, whatever. *If they’re motivated and have time for it.*

     Saying “what they really need is… an online course” is… actually a tacit admission that what’s actually missing is time and motivation.

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     Krzysztof Kozlowski (krzk@social.kernel.org)'s status on Thursday, 21-Nov-2024 19:47:27 JST Krzysztof Kozlowski

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     @luis_in_brief Aaah, so now I know what was missing in my maintainer's life:
     "Maintainers will get hands-on learning of security principles, tools like GitHub Copilot and Copilot Autofix"
     Github Copilot!
     
     Microsoft jokes from open-source...