Subj : [$] Rug pulls, forks, and open-source feudalism
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From : LWN.net
Date : Fri Sep 05 2025 16:00:08

[$] Rug pulls, forks, and open-source feudalism

Date:
Fri, 05 Sep 2025 14:48:07 +0000

Description:
Like almost all human endeavors, open-source software development involves
a range of power dynamics.  Companies, developers, and users are all
concerned with the power to influence the direction of the software  and,
often, to profit from it.  At the 2025 Open
Source Summit Europe , Dawn Foster talked about how those dynamics can
play out, with an eye toward a couple of tactics  rug pulls and forks  that
are available to try to shift power in one direction or another.

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Link to news story:
https://lwn.net/Articles/1036465/


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