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longislandguidoyesterday at 4:24 PM2 repliesview on HN

Remind me why I'm supposed to care who the maintainer is for a piece of software that runs for a few seconds then gets tf out of the way.


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dirasiebyesterday at 7:52 PM

because it “runs for a few seconds” until the maintainers decide it should run for a few minutes, see init for an example

logicchainsyesterday at 4:47 PM

Because they're going to try to use it to make it impossible for you to run an operating system that isn't spyware.

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