‘Stop calling it a hobby and start treating it as infrastructure’: EXANTE calls out the underfunding of widely used open source projects
THE SO WHAT
If your stack depends on underfunded open source, you’re effectively free-riding on unfunded infrastructure — and that’s an operational risk, not just a moral one. Catalog your critical OSS dependencies and assume you’ll need to contribute money, engineering time, or support contracts to keep them reliable.
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