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Sudo maintainer, handling utility for more than 30 years, is looking for support (www.theregister.com)
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It's hard to imagine something as fundamental to computing as the sudo command becoming abandonware, yet here we are: its solitary maintainer is asking for help to keep the project alive.

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[–] srestegosaurio@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 6 hours ago

I think that's at least a big part of it. There's so much unnecessary friction in legacy projects that, while understandable to a degree, sucks.