Frankly, to me it looks like Tridge started off as a talented but broke student with high ideals expressed through open source execution and has since gone off the rails and is now full time engaged in profiting from building weapons systems. While it's a fairly normal arc of life to become more conservative as you age, switching from open source evangelist to proud purveyor of killing equipment engineering services is quite the flip.

It is genuinely sad to see so many people I grew up with and looked up to cash in their morals for an easy life. We have options, people. Don't do it.

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