I mean, to a large degree, all this stuff is and was highly predictable.
But it's also sad; during the OpenHatch and MediaGoblin days, we did a great amount of work to try to lower the gates to contributing to FOSS projects. In order to survive, many FOSS projects may need to raise the gates.
Reputation attacks are one thing; reputation-building attacks another. It's going to be hard to deal with.
@cwebberChristine Lemmer-Webber this vaguely reminds me of a scam I remember mom explaining to me in the 90s where the scammer slops a bunch of very soapy water onto the wind shield of your car or the windows of a business or something, and then is like "oh gee whiz I started washing the wrong thing, I'm not allowed to do this for free though so you have to pay me now or I wont finish the job". I think it is more likely that the agent is funding a human to not work than it is funding "itself".
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