The Register wrote a story about a single maintainer open source project, I think it's shameful and upsetting. So I wrote a blog post about it<\/p>
An absolutely ridiculous amount of open source is one person projects. I have the data to prove it<\/p>
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Stunning conclusion:
\u201cOpen source, the thing that drives the world, the thing Harvard says has an economic value of 8.8 trillion dollars (also a big number). Most of it is one person. And I can promise you not one of those single person projects have the proper amount of resources they need. If you want to talk about possible risks to your supply chain, a single maintainer that\u2019s grossly underpaid and overworked. That\u2019s the risk. The country they are from is irrelevant.\u201d
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Stunning conclusion:
\u201cOpen source, the thing that drives the world, the thing Harvard says has an economic value of 8.8 trillion dollars (also a big number). Most of it is one person. And I can promise you not one of those single person projects have the proper amount of resources they need. If you want to talk about possible risks to your supply chain, a single maintainer that\u2019s grossly underpaid and overworked. That\u2019s the risk. The country they are from is irrelevant.\u201d
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