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The Unpaid Backbone of Open Source: Solo Maintainers Face Increasing Security Demands (socket.dev)

submitted 1 month ago by BrikoX@lemmy.zip to c/opensource@programming.dev

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

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[–] masterspace@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Why just tech companies? Why not every industry that relies on open source software?

Quite frankly I do not see the point of crafting legislation this tailored, just fund it from general government resources and then generally tax the rich more.

[–] CameronDev@programming.dev 4 points 1 month 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.