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What makes you think OSS is sustainable? There have been various problems with key projects due to lack of funding (e.g. OpenSSL, GPG) There area huge number
by raesene9 7y ago
What makes you think OSS is sustainable? There have been various problems with key projects due to lack of funding (e.g. OpenSSL, GPG)
There area huge number of libraries are are becoming unmaintained due to lack of resources, which will likely cause problems down the line.
I'm not sure I'd call it a crisis, but it's definitely a problem.
- prepend 7y agoI call is sustainable based on the evidence of tons of projects sustaining themselves. Many for decades. There are flaws in OpenSSL and they were corrected. Sometimes projects like gpg die off. That stinks, but there are other options.