







Open Source before GitHub was reputation-driven and full of friction

A method for giving credit to organizations that contribute code to Open Source
By tracking organizational contributions in Git commits, we can give organizations more tangible reasons to fund open source and help sustain it over time.
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GitHub - OpenArCloud/openvps
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Something Big Happened in 1998
It is reasonable to accept that OSI founded Open Source with the Open Source Definition.

GitHub
GitHub is where people build software. More than 150 million people use GitHub to discover, fork, and contribute to over 420 million projects.

GitHub
GitHub is where people build software. More than 150 million people use GitHub to discover, fork, and contribute to over 420 million projects.

Ditching GitHub
This is going to be some sort of a public service announcement, withside notes. This has been brewing for a long, long time (years), it’sjust that I never se...
A GitHub Issue Title Compromised 4,000 Developer Machines
A prompt injection in a GitHub issue triggered a chain reaction that ended with 4,000 developers getting OpenClaw installed without consent. The attack composes well-understood vulnerabilities into something new: one AI tool bootstrapping another.

GitHub Star History
View and compare GitHub star history graph of open source projects.

Investigating unauthorized access to GitHub-owned repositories
If any impact is discovered, customers will be notified via established incident response and notification channels.

Open Source is Broken
The Open Source movement, as championed by the OSI, prizes absolute openness above all other concerns...

Open Source Endowment — World's First Endowment Fund for OSS
The Open Source Endowment provides truly sustainable funding for critical open source software through a community-driven endowment model.

The Missing Middle of Open Source
Why serious, maintainer-driven projects struggle to sustain themselves—and what it will take to fix it.

A big part of Github's stickiness is the social proof + resume of your activity history. Is there an easy omni-identity that combines your GitHub, Gitlab, @tangled.org, and @radicle.dev activity into a single view? Might lower the risk of starting new repos on emerging platforms.
GitHub says individuals and orgs have invested $100M+ in open source maintainers and projects via GitHub Sponsors since 2019, with $10M in the past five months (Stephanie Lincoln/The GitHub Blog) github.blog/open-source/maintainers/100-m… | techmeme.com/260721/p3#a260721p3