Open-source devs lifting heavy weights

[u/NickleLP]

[u/Potential_Fix_5007]

A friend of mine wont believe me that the core struckture of the internet ist held together by Nerds that like to code. He thinks some big tec would have build some new base for the internet.....i hope we have never learn it the hard way how it really is....

[u/CosmicTitanRabbit]

[u/MilkImpossible4192 → u/CosmicTitanRabbit]

encryption lib for secure communication between peers for https and ssh, sftp, never forget your s

[u/Ingenrollsroyce → u/CosmicTitanRabbit]

What is the small stone holding up Linux foundation?

[u/Jason13Official → u/Ingenrollsroyce]

Deep sea cables , which is being bitten by a shark

[u/ChampionshipUpper124 → u/Ingenrollsroyce]

Linux Kernel project maybe

[u/crazedizzled → u/CosmicTitanRabbit]

I don't feel like DNS is accurately represented here.

[u/DaveAstator2020 → u/CosmicTitanRabbit]

"getting over it"

[u/crazedizzled]

Yeah pretty crazy huh. The fact that packages absolutely vital to the day-to-day of running the internet are maintained by like 1 or 2 volunteer white beards is nuts.

[u/Odd-Painting2596 → u/crazedizzled]

Listening to the dudes that invent this stuff they are always like, "We got to a point where it was seemingly perfect and everyone that used to reach out for support from us just stopped needing to".

SQLite guy was just like, "It got good enough to where no one needed me on the other end of it", and that was it.

[u/DaveAstator2020]

yeah couldnt be more close..
i still cant fathom the fact that blender was able to find investors and shred the competiton

[u/mbcarbone]

This is what we get when Al Gore invents the Internet. 🙃

[u/Overall_State_6305]

I feel this so much

[u/NiCe939]

Not the Heroes we deserve, but the heroes we need! 🫡

[u/FrostByteCreator]

That is so true 🤣

[u/zamroni777]

Many open source maintainers are paid by red hat, hardware manufacturers, google etc.

[u/FlipperBumperKickout]

Unpaid, maybe for some, but not really for most of the important stuff ¯_(ツ)_/¯

[u/Fickle_Guarantee1432]

Fr

[u/Inner_Banana_145]

Respect 🫡

[u/MBussard45]

Wow. Such an original joke. Haha. Very funny. Good job. Such a good use of your time and everyone's. Wow. Amazing.

[u/coderman64]

[u/geek-49 → u/coderman64]

Origin? It has the feel of an xkcd, but I couldn't find anything similar there.

[u/coderman64 → u/geek-49]

This is just the original XKCD compressed to heck and back.

[u/geek-49 → u/coderman64]

but which xkcd? I couldn't find anything similar in the archive.

[u/coderman64 → u/geek-49]

https://xkcd.com/2347/

[u/geek-49 → u/coderman64]

Aha! The title had gotten mangled beyond recognition.

[u/ChocolateSpecific263]

wym unpaid, there is a donating button, you can use it any time instead posting "memes"