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The unsung maintainers holding up the internet

Original: The people holding up the internet https:// sheets.works/data-viz/holding- up-the-internet # internet # blog # web # cur

A new data visualisation from Sheets.works highlights the small teams and individual volunteers behind critical open-source software the internet depends on, including OpenSSL, SQLite, zlib, curl, sudo, ffmpeg, Linux and core-js. The piece, being shared widely in open-source and developer circles, underscores how few maintainers keep essential infrastructure running, renewing debate about underfunding and burnout in the volunteer-run software ecosystem.

Why now: It resonates with ongoing concern about the fragility and underfunding of open-source infrastructure after incidents like log4j and xz.

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• The people holding up the internet https:// sheets.works/data-viz/holding- up-the-internet # internet # blog # web # curl # xz # tz # corejs # linux # sudo # libjpeg # sqlite # zlib # bash # ffmpeg # openssl # log4j # opensource · alxhu@greifswald.lgbt · 4

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