Speaker unverified: belief

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…Mm. Some of it is financial, but people should definitely support open source financially- … all, all across the board. But some of it is also, like, spiritual on a basic human level. There’s something that happens, like, with this image of F- FFmpeg and so much of the internet depending on it, where people almost, like, talk down to the folks who are carrying these projects forward and maintaining it. In the security community, they certainly did. That was one of the things I think that argument came out is there was a portion of the security community who’s like, “No, these guys write crap code. They need to fix their crap code.” I’m like, “No, no, no, no. This is a guy’s hobby project. You have a security bot that’s gone and found some AI-generated stuff. That guy didn’t write crap code.” It’s just an edge case to the 99.99999 percentile he didn’t think about because it’s his hobby project decoding Star Wars games.” Forget the hobby project aspect of it. It’s just hard work, and it’s beautiful, and it’s like the right approach there is to celebrate people- … for doing incredible, incredible work. It’s, it’s just incredible that humans step up- … not getting really paid at first or maybe ever, and then they’re doing it out of the love of it, and we need to, like, human civilization runs on people like that. We need to celebrate them.…

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