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Sudo maintainer, handling utility for more than 30 years, is looking for support (www.theregister.com)
submitted 2 days ago by randomname@scribe.disroot.org to c/programming@programming.dev
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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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[–] randomname@scribe.disroot.org 27 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (3 children)

It reminds me somehow on the famous xkcd webcomic: https://xkcd.com/2347

Edit for an addition: Maybe it's also a reminder that we should frequently donate when we use FOSS.

[–] howrar@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Of those who regularly donate (or think of donating) to FOSS projects, how many of them would've even had sudo cross their mind as a potential recipient for those donations?

[–] egrets@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago 
<username> is not in the donors file. This incident will be reported.
[–] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 1 points 2 days ago

That's what I thought of too. I was like "Oh, is he that guy in Nebraska I've been hearing about?"