[bigiain]

Yeah.

Right now it kinda feels to me like "Open Source" is the Russian army, assuming their sheer numbers and their huge quantity of equipment much off which is decades old.

Meanwhile attackers and bug hunters are like the Ukrainians, using new, inexpensive, and surprisingly powerful tools that none of the Open Source community has ever seen in the past, and for which it has very little defence capability.

The attackers with cheap drones or LLMs are completely overwhelming the old school who perhaps didn't notice how quickly the world has changed around them, or did notice but cannot do anything about quickly enough.

[Brian_K_White]

Well this argument was certainly inventive. What a weird impression to have about these things.

Who exactly is the innocent little Ukraine supposed to be that the big bad open source is supposed to be attacking to, what? take their land and make the OSS leader look powerful and successful at acheiving goals to distract from their fundamental awfulness? And who are the North Korean canon fodder purchased by OSS while we're at it?

Yeah it's just like that, practically the same situation. The authors of gnu cp and ls can't wait to get, idk, something apparently, out of the war they started when they attacked, idk, someone apparently.

[bigiain]

I guess I should have realised that comment could be so easily interpreted in ways I hadn't intended - given the political nature of that war.

I wasn't intending to pass judgement on which side is the "innocent little" and which is the "big bad", but I (and the downvoters) clearly see the it obviously reads one specific way.

I wish I'd chosen a less contentious example of a unarguably good army that's 50 or 100 years old and is still using tactics and equipment from the 70s and earlier, fighting against a somewhat less clearly "good" army using new tools that barely existed 5 years ago and new tactics that the older army (and everybody else) has never seem before with the capability to create new weapons and adjust tactics at speeds previously thought impossible. But that war doesn't exist (at least not outside of blindly loyal Russia supporters).

For the record, I believe Russia is clearly on the side of evil and Ukraine is clearly on the side of good in this conflict.

[bulbar]

The problem with the metaphor is that you switched the attacker and defender role.

Russia is the aggressor, but in your metaphor they are the defenders.