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Sudo maintainer, handling utility for more than 30 years, is looking for support (www.theregister.com)
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It's hard to imagine something as fundamental to computing as the sudo command becoming abandonware, yet here we are: its solitary maintainer is asking for help to keep the project alive.

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[-] srestegosaurio@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 23 hours ago

Hope you don't see who pays for kernel development…

[-] 0xtero@beehaw.org 4 points 19 hours ago

Why? I'm not against developers getting paid to do FOSS work. It's far more reasonable than the whole "bazaar of free people"-model that lives entirely on ideology.

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