Post by @pierstoval@mastodon.social

2026-02-09 10:34 UTC

@mnapoli@phpc.social @heiglandreas@phpc.social @asgrim@phpc.social @DaveLiddament@phpc.social @m1ke@phpc.social I'm pretty sure that people like you, that own some parts of the web infrastructure, could extrapolate a left-pad-gate-like event, if you organized with even a few other people owning critical tooling. Package managers, libraries, deployment tools, EVERYTHING can be used for that. Even the "just fork it" won't be useful: if too many tools are unavailable even for a few days, big corps can't compete, it'll cost them too much. They'll comply.

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@pierstoval@mastodon.social 2026-02-09 10:36

@mnapoli@phpc.social @heiglandreas@phpc.social @asgrim@phpc.social @DaveLiddament@phpc.social @m1ke@phpc.social You might lose a few hundreds of $/€ during these times. The other people joining you too. But you guys are the leaders of the OSS world, and if your tools just vanish, almost everyone on the planet is impacted. The money big corps will lose is much higher, by lots of orders of magnitude, and trust me, if you join with even 10, 20, 30 other OSS-leading maintainers, you'll win. Definitely.

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@mnapoli@phpc.social 2026-02-09 10:36

@pierstoval@mastodon.social @heiglandreas@phpc.social @asgrim@phpc.social @DaveLiddament@phpc.social @m1ke@phpc.social but comply to what? That's what I fail to see. I want a different system, but we live in a democracy and the majority of the population doesn't think like me. Who am I to force my POV on everyone else.

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