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Legal obligations that I grasped at age 9 don't really interest me to talk about. It's pretty obvious I understand them. What I was trying to talk about was what reasonable people should do. But apparently that's offensive to many ITT as most responses are condescending af
We might be condescending due to braindead users like this:
Despite grasping legal obligations at the age of 9, taking responsibility for your own actions seems to still be a struggle. Good luck.
You're right to an extent, but there is nuance. No end user goes through the Debian repositories and checking the source code for each package by hand. You would be well within your rights to be annoyed if a
rm -rf /
got added into a script in the repos somehow. A level of trust somewhere is unavoidable for things to work smoothly.Of course the difference in level of responsibility between core repos and random code pulled of github is vast.
The extent to which you're attempting to sound intelligent would be saddening if you weren't being so rude. I won't be replying to you in the future.