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Glad to see pushback in the comments of the Chainguard CEO's explanation post on LinkedIn, after they broke embargo for the PHP fixes yesterday:

https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7518756994284077056/

I've been frustrated by Chainguard before when moderating the /r/opensource sub, due to their CEO's repeated attempts at marketing via scare-mongering news articles. which just so happen to feature Chainguard.

LinkedInI wanted to share what happened with the PHP embargo, our role in it, and my decision process last night to ship the fixed builds early. First of all, the PHP Foundation and maintaI wanted to share what happened with the PHP embargo, our role in it, and my decision process last night to ship the fixed builds early. First of all, the PHP Foundation and maintainers did an amazing job here in a high stress situation. I'm sorry that my decision led to even more stress for them. We first got read in that there was something coming up in PHP last Friday by one of the original re
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Oct 22, 2026 · 08:06 UTC

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Chainguard have also raised over $700M in VC funding.

IMO, it would be more productive if they conceded to the inevitable unsustainable VC lifecycle, and donate whatever cash is left to the real heroes, like the PHP core team, community distro teams, and distro packagers, rather than making their lives more stressful to jump at marketing opportunities.

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