[HN Gopher] Making heads or tails of open source
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       Making heads or tails of open source
        
       Author : simjue
       Score  : 25 points
       Date   : 2022-09-20 18:02 UTC (4 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (tailscale.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (tailscale.com)
        
       | operator-name wrote:
       | > two weeks ago we welcomed Kristoffer Dalby as the newest Member
       | of our Technical Staff. Kristoffer is one of the principal
       | maintainers of Headscale. > Although Kristoffer is joining
       | Tailscale, we don't plan to change how Tailscale works with
       | Headscale. We'll continue to support Headscale as a complementary
       | project to Tailscale -- with its own community of users and
       | developers.
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       | It'll be interesting to see how this goes. I'm a big fan of
       | tailscale and the work they do, but historically these kind of
       | moves never play out how how anyone intends them to. I hope they
       | the headscale project continues to live on, and continues to have
       | seperate development from Tailscale's internal implementation to
       | meet the needs of the community.
       | 
       | Self hosting Tailscale beacons is more than just a "want", or a
       | "desire" for DIY. It's fundimentally about privacy and trust -
       | ANY VPN coordination server has a lot of power as we've seen from
       | compromised business networks. The coordination server has
       | ultimate control, and a malicious one could easily insert their
       | own clients, hijack DNS or even just passively monitor devices.
       | 
       | Overall I'm cautiously optemistic, but will probably throw a
       | sponsorship towards Headscale even though I'm currently on the
       | official servers.
        
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