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> Software owes it to its users to be secure.

There is no such obligation.

There is no warranty and software is provided AS-IS explicitly by the license.

I disagree, as software engineers we owe it to the craft to create correct software especially when we intend to distribute. Anything less is poor taste.

You bring up licensing. I’m not talking about legally I’m talking about a social contract.

The choice of license is also a a partial descriptor of the social contract. If I wanted to work on it for “customers” I would sell it. I don’t owe you anything otherwise.

The social contract is “here is something I’ve worked on for free, and it is a gift. Take it or leave it.”

You want me to work on something for it? FYPM

For GP's sake, even before you make it to FYPM levels of angry, you will be in over your head. It's too much work. I remember being very early in my career and feeling like GP does. This is very easily more than a full-time job. The demands people will make of you and the attitudes they will use to do it will make you crazy.

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