You'd be surprised what I manage with motivation and boredom.
You'd be surprised what a highly skilled ~~scalled~~ person can manage to achieve.

Boredom, Skills and Motivation are dangerous things to have if improperly handled.

You forget that a lot of brilliant open source projects are one man shows from geniuses somewhere around the world. They are usually not paid.

In the other hand, if you get your hands on a powerful botnet, you can rent out its services (like ddos for example) for quite a bit of money.

It's a scene from The Big Lebowski, right after The Dude got tortured with a marmot by German nihilists. Walter focuses on the legality of keeping a marmot as a pet, which is obviously not the main issue.

As the image transcript in the post body explains, the image at the bottom is a scene from a well-known 1998 film (which, according to Wikipedia, was in 2014 selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant").

This meme will not make as much sense to people who have not seen the film. You can watch the referenced scene here. The context is that the main character, The Dude (played by Jeff Bridges) has recently had his private residence invaded by a group of nihilists with a pet marmot (actually portrayed by a ferret) and they have threatened to "cut off his Johnson". In an attempt to express sympathy, The Dude's friend Walter (played by John Goodman) points out that, in addition to the home invasion and threats, the nihilists' exotic pet is also illegal. The Dude's retort "what, are you a fucking park ranger now" is expressing irritation with that observation, because it is insignificant compared with the threat of the removal of his penis.

This meme attempts to draw a parallel between this humorous scene and XZ developer Lasse Collin's observation that the XZ backdoor was also a violation of Debian's software licensing policies.

Thank you for reading my artist's statement.