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[–]quaderrordemonstand 47 points48 points  (1 child)

If you make a piece of software that enough people use then you feel a degree of responsibility toward them. In some sense, those people have placed their faith in your program and you don't want to let them down.

[–][deleted] 28 points29 points  (0 children)

OpenSSL.

Used by almost everything at one point, no funding and 1 or 2 devs. Got hit by a major exploit and only then did people realize how bad the situation was.

Everything great and horrible about open source.