Gotta make sure the code runs.
Gotta make sure the code runs.
Even if you don’t accept PRs, you’ll get people who want you to. Having the source open will generate a good amount of support email that is about modifications to your code. People can’t help it.
It’s extra work they don’t totally see the value in and they want to be able to sell their product? Those seem like pretty normal reasons not to maintain an open source project.
If you read the article it’s explained that some SSL implementations put random data in the time field (OpenSSL was given as an example). Microsoft knows about this and so needs a certain number of closely matching timestamps to be confident about the new time to change the system time. However, if you get particularly unlucky with a string of random timestamps that match, you end up with a random time.
They just don’t have the money to pay the lawyers that you need if you want to host that kind of content without shutting the whole thing down to move it on occasion.
Canadians as a dogwhistle for what, dare I ask? Or was that part of what you refused to ask?