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this post was submitted on 31 Mar 2024
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If you think people are going to be trustworthy just because they are getting paid you are naive.
not trustworthy per se but maybe less overworked and inclined to review code more hastily, or less tired and inclined to have the worse judgement that makes such a project more vulnerable to stuff like this.
these people maintain the basis of our entire software infrastructure thanklessly for us in between the full time jobs they need to survive, this has to change.
as for trust in foss projects, the community will often notice bad faith code just like they just did (and very quickly this time, i might add!)
I guess you are using trust in a different way here. Trust in competency can vary with both volunteer and paid workers, everyone makes mistakes though. Trust that someone doesn't do something deliberately malicious is a different matter though.