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| ▲ | Kwpolska 17 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| Google decided to drop XSLT, because the volunteer-maintained libxslt had no maintainers for some time. So, instead of helping the project, they just decided to remove a feature. |
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| ▲ | aleph_minus_one 12 hours ago | parent [-] | | But by (attempting to) remove this dependency, Google indeed decided to stop piggy-backing on another volunteer - as requested. Be careful what you wish for. :-) |
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| ▲ | josefx 16 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Were you born before or after heartbleed uncovered the sorry state of OpenSSL and the complete absence of funding it was maintained under? So to answer your question: Every single one of them, from Google with its billions, to Mozilla with Googles billions, none of them would spend even a cent on critical open source projects they relied on as long as they could get away with it. |
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| ▲ | mhitza 17 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| Almost all of them? as I recall there was a single volunteer developer maintaining the xml/xslt libraries they were using. Wasn't it similar with openssl 13+ years ago? Few volunteer maintainers, and only after a couple of major vulnerabilities money got thrown at that project? I'm sure there's more and that's why the famous xkcd comic is always of relevance. |
