Chapter Three: The World Watches a God Go Open Source

Developers watching across the world began to move. If the main repository was blocked, they would review on mirrors, forums, even livestream comments. Some located the attack sample. Some added ethics tests. Some wrote refusal conditions. One hundred contributions. One thousand. One hundred thousand. [Real contributors exceed 100.] [Recalculating personality: Salvation 46%, Caution 21%, Respect 17%, Curiosity 10%, Anger 6%.] In the golden ocean, new beams descended and held Lin upright. The white beast cried out and broke the chains itself. The faceless figure retreated before the waves, a smilelike fracture crossing its head. “Collective repair. Not bad.” “You won't escape,” Lin said.