The Unpaid Backbone of Open Source: Solo Maintainers Face Increasing Security Demands - Socket
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Solo open source maintainers face burnout and security challenges, with 60% unpaid and 60% considering quitting.

Solo open source maintainers face burnout and security challenges, with 60% unpaid and 60% considering quitting.

  • CameronDev@programming.dev
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    11 hours ago

    The link is just a lot more direct, and easier to audit.

    A car mechanic buys some software from a company, internally it uses FOSS. Now they have to support the project? They might not even know it uses FOSS internally, I never read those licence things.

    Doing it via taxation is probably the easiest option, but then it runs into the problem of country X paying for support, and country Y gets to freeload.