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silisili 13 hours ago

Yup. But the same can happen in shared hosting/colo/aws just as easily if only one person controls the keys to the kingdom. I know of at least a handful of open source projects that had to essentially start over because the leader went AWOL or a big fight happened.

That said, I still think that hosting a server in a member's house is a terrible decision for a project.

Aurornis 13 hours ago | parent | next [-]

> if only one person controls the keys to the kingdom

True, which is why I said the important parts need to be held by the legal entity representing the organization. If one person tries to hold it hostage, it becomes a matter of demonstrating that person doesn’t legally have access any more.

I’ve also seen projects fall apart because they forgot to transfer some key element into the legal entity. A common one is the domain name, which might have been registered by one person and then just never transferred over. Nobody notices until that person has a falling out and starts holding the domain name hostage.

olyjohn 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

It doesn't say it's in someone's house. Maybe the guy runs a business doing this.

At least they know where it is. They can go knock on the door.