Comment by dirk94018

Author here. I run LinuxToaster, a set of commercial Unix tools for the AI era. This started as notes after watching the LiteLLM compromise unfold in real time — 94 million monthly downloads, credential stealer active for three hours, maintainer's GitHub issue closed as "not planned." Same week Cloudflare showed one engineer could clone Next.js in a week for $1,100 in inference costs. The thesis: the economics that created open source have inverted. Production used to be expensive and trust was free. Now production is nearly free and trust is the expensive part. Open source is getting hit from every direction — supply chain attacks are cheaper to execute than to detect, corporations clone instead of contribute, and individual devs yoink the three functions they need instead of installing the package. Happy to discuss. I know this is a spicy take for HN.