Comment by gchamonlive
3 hours ago
How does opensource software work when nobody is accountable when I run software from GitHub?
This is the exact mentality behind corporate software and why nobody gets fired for using IBM, Oracle, Azure...
Accountability is a poor proxy for quality because there are so many ways to frame an incident never those responsible really get accountable.
Software works because developers care about the product. If something goes wrong the entire team is accountable, so they work together on something as one.
Open source projects themselves have reputation, regardless of how they are governed specifically.
Yes, you look at stars, issues and activity to infer trust, but there is no accountability, the licenses are clear about that that software is distributed as is