[delusional]

> People need to be responsible for code they commit and push anyways.

Well the GPL (which rsync is licensed under) says: "This program comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY" so actually nobody is responsible for anything.

[berti]

I think they meant in terms of karma/reputation for the individual, and the project. Traditionally open source is heavily based on these social currencies.

[saagarjha]

Nobody is suing the maintainer for support here so this is completely irrelevant.