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Linux distros haunted by Polkit-geist for 12+ years: Bug grants root access to any user

AdamWill

Re: Polkit

It's kinda weird constantly seeing this argument *in the same week* as people are also moaning about how nobody is paying F/OSS developers.

Yes, lots of important F/OSS things are written by people who work at Red Hat. You know why that is? Because Red Hat hires people who write important F/OSS things and pays them to do it. You know. That thing people keep saying should be happening more. systemd is a "Red Hat thing that got foisted on everybody else" because Red Hat saw that Lennart was writing important stuff (at the time, pulseaudio and avahi) and hired him to do it full time. polkit is a "Red Hat thing that got foisted on to everybody else" because Red Hat hired a bunch of the GNOME developers in order to let them work on GNOME full time.

Would F/OSS be in a better place if Red Hat *didn't* hire people and pay them to work on important F/OSS projects full time? Would you prefer that?

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