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The invisible code running the world (and who pays for it)

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The era of the «free lunch» in open source is over. As the global economy rests on an invisible layer of volunteer-led code, the foundations are beginning to crack under the weight of «maintainer fatigue.» Leaders from the EU issued a blunt warning: digital sovereignty isn’t built on software alone—it’s built on the «invisible» labor of the people who maintain it.

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GNU/Linux System Administrator, Paris-based

Software Heritage is an ambitious nonprofit, entirely Free/Open-Source Software (FOSS) initiative that aims at collecting, organizing, preserving for the very long term, and sharing all publicly available software in source code…

9 de noviembre de 2021

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DISI, Università di Bologna

«Software is at the basis of most modern science. The reproducibility of scientific results and the whole concept of scientific research is deeply linked with the preservation and the study…

14 de marzo de 2017

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Computer History Museum

Software source code is a form of literature, written by humans to be read by humans as well as machines. It gives us a view into the mind of the designer, and…

24 de febrero de 2017

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Gandi

From its inception, GANDI has supported open-source projects, including notably VLC, Ubuntu, Gnome, and CaliOpen. GANDI’s primary focus is providing new, high-performance solutions for its customers while at the same time sharing the…

3 de febrero de 2017

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