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Data Drop counts the people holding up the internet

Original: “The people holding up the internet” by Data Drop 🔗 https:// sheets.works/data-viz/holding- up-the-internet > Billions o

A new data project by Data Drop, 'The people holding up the internet', examines open-source software and finds that billions of phones run on code maintained by only a handful of people. The team counted maintainers directly from the code itself, highlighting how heavily the world's digital infrastructure depends on a very small group of often unpaid developers. Readers are sharing the findings and discussing the fragility of open-source maintenance.

Why now: The striking finding that critical global infrastructure relies on so few maintainers resonates amid ongoing concerns about open-source sustainability and security.

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• “The people holding up the internet” by Data Drop 🔗 https:// sheets.works/data-viz/holding- up-the-internet > Billions of phones run on code looked after by a handful of people. We counted them from the code itself. # Internet # openSource ⚓️ https://… · nhoizey@mamot.fr · 2

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