Reply to post: It Open Source so no worries

What happens when the maintainer of a JS library downloaded 26m times a week goes to prison for killing someone with a motorbike? Core-js just found out

Lorribot

It Open Source so no worries

As more people use open source and more applications and websites get dependant on what were obscure libraries, the whole single point of failure thing will become more apparent and more likely to break stuff or expose things to a security breach.

Take a look at NTP for a disaster waiting to happen.

You need to have a more formal set up once stuff becomes very important to a lot of people having one block in his shed in the garden as sole maintainer is a bit of a joke.

I would imagine insurance companies may start asking what libraries are in place and what support agreements there for code maintenance.

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