Mike McQuaid has a message for open source maintainers at profitable companies: "Stop asking permission to fix what your employer already depends on."Open source software underpins critical infrastruc...
The increasing reliance of highly profitable companies on uncompensated open-source software is reaching a critical point, with maintainers feeling undervalued and overworked.
This highlights a growing crisis in the sustainability of crucial digital infrastructure, potentially leading to instability or increased costs for enterprises.
Companies are being directly challenged to formally integrate and fund open-source maintenance as part of their core operations, rather than treating it as a peripheral activity.
- · Open Source Maintainers
- · Open Source Foundations
- · Companies offering paid open source support
- · Independent Software Vendors (ISVs)
- · Companies relying on free open source without contribution
- · Projects with significant but uncompensated corporate dependencies
- · Early-stage open source projects struggling for adoption
Increased corporate funding and formal contributions to critical open-source projects.
A shift in business models for some open-source projects, emphasizing commercial support and services.
Potential for new regulations or industry standards around corporate responsibility towards open-source dependencies.
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