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Debate grows over financial sustainability of open source projects

Original: The lack of (financial) # sustainability of # opensource initiatives when some projects are famously holding the entire

Commenters are highlighting the financial fragility of open source initiatives, arguing that it is no accident that projects carrying much of the digital world's infrastructure remain underfunded. The discussion points to the mismatch between the formal, money-and-contract economy and volunteer-driven software, warning that widely-used critical projects lack stable funding despite their importance.

Why now: Recurring outages and underfunding of critical open source projects keep raising concerns about how digital infrastructure is maintained.

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• The lack of (financial) # sustainability of # opensource initiatives when some projects are famously holding the entire digital system on their shoulders is not a freak of human nature: The formal quid-pro-quo economy, built on top of monetary systems and legal contracts is 1)… · openrisk · 5

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