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What was the goal of the attackers?
I don't mean like, what was the goal of the virus itself. But what was the motivation? Ransom? Or was this an attack designed to fundamentally harm trust in open-source?
People have the conclusion "this is a problem with open source", but modern software development without open source quite literally isn't possible. Any fully proprietary supply chain is going to be so precarious that it's essentially guaranteed to fail.
Well my thinking here is that this could have been an attack with a corporate origin. The corporations that want to undermine open source won't give a shit whether or not the open source is actually better for this, just the perception.
I just sorta don't see what they got out of this other than vandalism, unless vandalism was specifically the point, which would make sense if the point is to hurt views of open source among people within these companies.
100% agreed, the motivation to make some profits in the near term by hurting trust is competitors is real. The bourgeois also do many things that are ultimately self-destructive, which this definitely would be. I was referring to people who fall for the idea that proprietary somehow avoids these issues, rather than making a direct reply to the assertion in your comment. Sorry, I think I didn't make that super clear in my original reply.