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5 months ago • •

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5 months ago • •


I'm keynoting the #fossnorth conference next week. If you are there, come say hi!

foss-north.se/2025/

(let me offer a work-in-progress slide from it)

The median number of maintainers in an Open Source project: 1

foss-north 2025

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in reply to daniel:// stenberg:// • 5 months ago • •

On that note - if a company is basing a commercial product heavy on open source project(s), what's the best way to give back? Money or co-maintainers/contributions.

(Of course this is different between projects, but somehow generalized like your slide for the most common case)

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in reply to Troed Sångberg • 5 months ago • •
@troed I think the generalized answer would be: "in the way the project wants it". Slightly larger/mature ones might think accepting sponsorships/money is the better take, while smaller ones in many cases rather prefer code/helping-hands.
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in reply to daniel:// stenberg:// • 5 months ago • •
I'd guess it's about the same on non-open-source projects?
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in reply to highvoltage • 5 months ago • •

I think we know less about that though. And proprietary projects are A) less interesting and b) live much shorter lifetimes in general.

Edit: also of course the most obvious difference: those maintainers tend to get paid.

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in reply to daniel:// stenberg:// • 5 months ago • •
depending on the message you want to send, you should add "*: One is very close to None".
Also, are you sure that active OSS projects outnumber abandoned ones?
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in reply to ang_mo_uncle • 5 months ago • •
@ang_mo_uncle we can of course not be completely sure of this, but numbers from previously run polls indicate this, yes
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in reply to daniel:// stenberg:// • 5 months ago • •
this is unexpectedly awesome.
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in reply to daniel:// stenberg:// • 5 months ago • •
I'm actually surprised it's that high!
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in reply to daniel:// stenberg:// • 5 months ago • •
The rise of the Atomic Ecosystem..
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in reply to daniel:// stenberg:// • 5 months ago • •
@bagder, expected zero there.
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