Independent journalist Bailey Reutzel recently wrote about the often undiscussed problem with open source software (hint: it's not open source itself). The problem she surmised (and confirmed in an interview with OpenBazaar CEO Manu Sporny), and which many agree with after decades of seeing the cycle, is that corporations rely on open source software for their profit model but do little to compensate the hardworking volunteers. Her article centers around the OpenSSL project, which suffered a serious vulnerability in recent memory with the Heartbleed bug. She points out that only a couple of full-time programmers are attached to the project, […]
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