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Volunteers maintain the open source software holding up the internet

Original: A few people working in their spare time to contribute and maintain # open source projects which hold the # internet and

A discussion is circulating about how a small number of unpaid volunteers maintain the open source projects underpinning the internet and most computing devices. Critics point out that this critical infrastructure is sustained in people's spare time, without regular funding, and a data visualization project highlighting this imbalance is being shared to underline how fragile the arrangement is.

Why now: People are reacting to renewed concern about underfunded open source projects that critical internet infrastructure depends on.

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• A few people working in their spare time to contribute and maintain # open source projects which hold the # internet and most of computer devices. It's crazy that we don't fund them regularly. https:// sheets.works/data-viz/holding- up-the-internet · wfiu@mastodon.online · 1

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