Kieran Kunhya
π€ SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
I want to be proud of what I've been doing.
And...
Like, if I had sold out, I would have betrayed so many other people working.
Yeah, and be a service for so many people around the world, and this is important.
The last offer I had was obscene.
And they say, yeah, but imagine with all that money, you could build something new, open source, right?
It was like the mind trick was, it was difficult.
But for me, it was just like, no, this doesn't work like that, or this is not the right thing, so I don't do it.
And again, right, it's not that I don't like money or whatever.
It's just like it wasn't right.
The problem here is the disproportion of means on discovery compared to patching it, right?
And this is the biggest issue, right?
And after that debacle, Google did some changes.
And they also now have reward tools for fixing issues.
So it has changed a bit because of that debacle.
So it's good, right?
But we've seen, and we talk about Google, but we have seen like some other large companies saying, oh, you need to fix this bug because it's critical in our product.
Can you explain the XZ fiasco?
And this is a very big problem in large, like we're talking about some companies, but it's the same everywhere, right?
A lot of those companies are,