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   Josh Bressers (joshbressers@infosec.exchange)'s status on Thursday, 28-Aug-2025 14:42:53 JST Josh Bressers

   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

   An absolutely ridiculous amount of open source is one person projects. I have the data to prove it

   https://opensourcesecurity.io/2025/08-oss-one-person/

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     Su_G (su_g@aus.social)'s status on Thursday, 28-Aug-2025 18:27:29 JST Su_G

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     @joshbressers
     Stunning conclusion:
     “Open 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’s grossly underpaid and overworked. That’s the risk. The country they are from is irrelevant.”
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