> I took action as the primary on-call engineer to lock down the AWS account and prevent any actions by possible attackers.
So he suspected an attack, but did not contact his employer about it or other team members. No action taken to mitigate the attack or to identify what was going on. Just changed the AWS root account password and nothing else.
Even assuming the very best intentions, I don’t think it unreasonable that Ruby Central found that a little bit suspicious.
Maybe I’m just not the target audience, but looking at the front page, I don’t see what actual problems this solves. The claims sound nice, but without examples of what they mean in real world use, it’s not really compelling.
I understand it must be frustrating to have massive companies using your code without paying, while you struggle to make ends meet.
But that is the reality of open source. The very reason that all those BigCo’s are using your code is _because_ you offered it to them for free.
If you actually want payment for your code, but you’re not being up-front about it, then people are going to be annoyed with you when you show up asking for money, because they feel you’re pulling a “bait and switch” on them – because you kinda are.
The reality is that every one of us are relying on thousands of open source projects on a daily basis. Everything from glibc to our web browser itself are mostly if not completely open source. The number of open source projects involved in me writing this comment likely number in the thousands. I can’t practically support all of them directly.
Hard as it may be to hear, your open source project is not special. It’s just another among hundreds or thousands like it in the dependency stack. Only a tiny minority of the people who use it will even know it’s there, much less care that it exists. If you can’t accept that, you should probably get out of the open source business.
…and threatened legal action against anyone using the word “Markdown” in a way he did not approve of.
Jeff Atwood goes out of his way to be courteous to Gruber in this post, but frankly, I think Gruber was being a jerk here, using his claim to the name to tyrannise an open source community that he has otherwise not been involved with in the slightest the last ~17 years.
Given the ubiquity of Markdown, and how painful it is to build a completely compliant parser, I really hope Djot (or something like it) would take off.
Shame that the creator of Markdown blocks any efforts to to fix or standardise the format.
GPL has the well-known web services loophole, that effectively makes copy-left protections moot. Without that, Wordpress and other GPL-licensed web CMS/frameworks would never have taken off like they have.
As for MySQL, notice how no one builds anything on top of it (like TimescaleDB and others did with PostgreSQL), but just uses MySQL as-is without modifying it, also rendering copy-left moot.