March 2025
Intermediate to advanced
470 pages
12h 45m
English
Typing “open source sustainability” into a search engine returns a lot of results lately. The topic of FOSS sustainability has been all the rage these past few years, though it’s usually phrased as “pay the maintainers” rather than as sustainability. As you’ll learn, it’s rare that any sort of sustainability—FOSS or otherwise—is as simple as throwing money at the problem.
The issue of FOSS sustainability sprang to popularity in 2016 with the publication by the Ford Foundation of Roads and Bridges: The Unseen Labor Behind Our Digital Infrastructure.[104] This research report, written by Nadia Asparouhova (née Eghbal), shines a light on the woeful state of many critical FOSS projects and ...
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