Open-source software (OSS) sits at the center of almost every digital technology moving the world since the early 1980s laptops, cellphones, widespread internet connectivity, cloud computing, social media, automation, all the rainbow flavors of e-commerce, and even secure communications and anti-censorship tools.
A "protestware" attack targeting Russian and Belarusian users hidden in a popular open source code library is drawing backlash for going a step too far and possibly threatening open source development as a concept.