<story><title>Open source ‘protestware’ harms Open Source</title><url>https://opensource.org/open-source-protestware-harms-open-source</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>seanw444</author><text>I just don&amp;#x27;t understand what the node-ipc dev was expecting when he did that.&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;Hm, maybe if I put malware into a community-trusted module that destroys files of people in a certain geopolitical region, the countless innocent citizens that are affected will realize what they did wrong! Wait, who am I actually targeting again?&amp;quot;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lioeters</author><text>My guess is that they got caught up in the socially accepted &amp;quot;hate fest&amp;quot; against citizens of a certain country, particularly by private companies.</text></comment>
<story><title>Open source ‘protestware’ harms Open Source</title><url>https://opensource.org/open-source-protestware-harms-open-source</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>seanw444</author><text>I just don&amp;#x27;t understand what the node-ipc dev was expecting when he did that.&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;Hm, maybe if I put malware into a community-trusted module that destroys files of people in a certain geopolitical region, the countless innocent citizens that are affected will realize what they did wrong! Wait, who am I actually targeting again?&amp;quot;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gruez</author><text>&amp;gt;&amp;quot;Hm, maybe if I put malware into a community-trusted module that destroys files of people in a certain geopolitical region, the countless innocent citizens that are affected will realize what they did wrong! Wait, who am I actually targeting again?&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;yeah but countless ukranian women and children are getting murdered by russians! surely a few wiped hard drives is worth it to raise awareness?&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;&amp;#x2F;s of course, but people who hold this view sincerely isn&amp;#x27;t hard to find.</text></comment>