No, it can't. More contributions require more maintainer effort, not less, if you want the project to follow a design and pursue a goal, rather than be a kitchen sink.
Yeah… no. I’m working on a pretty important project at my job that needs to be done well and as fast as possible without sacrificing quality. I’m writing code solo because I know exactly what I need to write and having to keep a second person in line would use so much time and energy, I wouldn’t get work done.
Don’t worry about the bus factor, other people know what I’m doing and I have a backup who can take over. Might delay the project a month or two, but the company can manage without me.
Is that really worse then the current geopolitical situation where you are indirectly trusting 3rd party governments (e.g north korea) not to start a nuclear war?
Even if new laws don't pass and the data is not shared with the US, what is stopping NSA from farming your data in some other EU country that is willing to cooperate?
Did you mean Europe? Because the laws will likely be the same for all of the EU. If you meant another country in the EU who will break the law for the NSA that would not be easy to stop.
Maybe the NSA can ask Russia. That's part of Europe too!
> The law seems to extend beyond the borders of the EU.
Hi guys,
It's Kim from the Best Korea, and we just decided that we are going to allow our people to access the Internet.
There is a tiny little thing though, our internet policy stipulates that for every traffic hit to sites outside our borders, the country of origin either donates 1 nuke or if it doesn't have nukes an item of great value, or a 24 hour TV broadcast featuring me.
EU has a history of moralistic bullshit proposals like that stupid cookie law.
Which looked good in the eye of the law-makers (career politicians I should call them) but doesn't really work in the real world.
People get used to accepting the stupid cookie law and it becomes a habit, and in a couple of years the law lost it's meaning (people blindly accept cookie law) and no-one cares about "the great privacy laws of the EU".
This is probably how GDPR will end up, no sane person would have the time to read all the privacy notices and the crappy opt-ins to just order food as fast as possible.
Hey I'm starving I need that food ordered now, here's my location so you can deliver food here, I don't give a rat's ass about your privacy statement and clickady clack are there any more opt-ins to check before I can finally order my food?
Its your favorite dictator, the leader of Crazystan and from 29th of May 2018 I ask that from that date, for every site accessed by citizens of my country I require the hosting company to send one employee to be sacrificed to our mighty gods.
Failure to comply will attract a fine of 50 Gazillion dollars.
