We don’t need to speculate do we, there are tons of real non company run OSS projects

Now I personally wish lawyers and plumbers also got into the free work thing but here we are

AI-slop PRs automerged in response to AI slop bug reports.

Coz just about everyone wants to be that one guy in Nebraska thanklessly maintaining this bit of digital infrastructure, apparently?

Yeah me neither.

I think the only thing that would convince people to move away from curl at this point would be if curl had a heartbleed level vulnerability and failed to fix it quickly.