I'm not sure I like this form of content. It's hard to read and confusing on mobile for little gains. The article seemed interesting though.

What I’m curious about is, then, how should this problem be handled? Actually, there’s a point I’m somewhat curious about. For projects with a bus factor of 1 or very low, and in a supply chain like this, there’s a somewhat difficult point regarding what kind of system should be established so that the core developers maintaining that kind of core receive appropriate compensation.

That’s true, after all. Technically very new or challenging technologies get the spotlight from many people, but these technologies are very important yet are a kind of engine technology that is less visible... I’m curious how this should be identified or selected.

That said, if you set up a committee, the committee could also become an inner circle based on their personal connections.

And Gijs Kruitbosch / Richard Ziade/Chris Dary/others? who gave us reader mode.

This article is biased towards open source developers and ignores all the employees at tier 1 backbones who are the ones actually holding up the internet.

It's indeed ridiculous how the world's trillion dollar private companies run on essential software that idealistic open-source maintainers build basically for free while scrambling to even make basic income.

I'm all for open ideals, but we shouldn't be as naive to ignore how stuff we build on these ideals - if offered completely free - will eventually almost exclusively profit only those private entities that best know how to use them, hide them in a 'proprietary chain' and use VC capital to invest more in PR, markting and sales than engineering to reap all the benefits off them.

Therefore, I think, the original problem was that most software wasn't automatically defaulting to a limited-commercial (e.g. business of > million revenue must pay for usage in their product) or AGPL licenses that would benefit all - by either allowing maintainers to proliferate from the success the helped build or making the resulting products build on top instead of private profit available freely to all.

I so so so love this! Thank you for putting effort into communicating this crucial information.

I loved this - high quality content and the sort of info I wouldn’t chance across myself

> After that it is Lasse on his own again, and in 2025 he wrote 97 percent of the changes.

The xz story is so depressing. The only person who stepped up to help him was someone trying to plant a backdoor...