A long article on the economics of “open source” software, the origins of “free software” and why developers are suffering from burnout. Fascinating/scary story about openssl.
Intersting, hadn’t even given this much thought before.
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Thank you for this post, it has raised some questions for me, specifically for nHIP. Thanx again.
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