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Every Developer Types sudo. Its Maintainer Since 1994 Needed a Sponsor. AWS Paid for a Rewrite.
For two years the original took in about $63 a month while its Rust rewrite found backers
On many systems, the first time you type sudo, it prints this.
You read it once, maybe smiled at the Spider-Man line, and never saw it again. The third rule went in on 16 January 2004. The man who typed it was Todd C. Miller, who had already been maintaining sudo for a decade. His commit message said where he got it.
Add Stan Lee / Uncle Ben quote to the lecture from RedHat
The rule was meant for you. It turned out to describe him.
Thirty-two years. One maintainer. Twenty-three months at $63.
Miller has maintained sudo since 1994 and wrote 13,066 of its 13,411 commits, 97.4 percent. In February 2024, his corporate sponsor stopped paying. For the next twenty-three months, donations to the project on Open Collective averaged about $63 a month, while a…
