Taking Roads and Bridges literally

Making Sense of Open-Source: Ideals, Reality, and What's on the Horizon - December, 3 2025 | Notion

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Open Source infrastructure deserves a business model

Open Source infrastructure is essential, invisible, and chronically underfunded. A more sustainable approach may be to connect the cost of running that infrastructure to the organizations that rely on it most.

This Mess We’re In

ethics, open source, and free riding

Open source is the electric vehicle of digital policy

Open source is very popular these days, not least due to the open-source strategy that the European Commission announced last week as part of the tech sovereignty package. While there is a lot to criticise about that strategy (exaggerated goals, misleading numbers etc), the one thing I would like to

Open Source is Broken

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

It’s time to rethink Open Source

Why developers give away valuable work for free — and what can be done to take that money back.

Transmutations

We know from experience and empirical analysis that open source and open standards projects drift into oligarchies that struggle to reform themselves and become ossified. Often, we can simply let them die and replace them with fresher alternatives, but when that's a costly option we can learn from theoretical models of institutional change to understand how to compost the oligarchy and regrow the project from within.

Anthony Fu

It’s not a secret that open-source projects are now a critical part of almost every software project. While most open-source projects are maintained by volunteers, the sustainability of these projects becomes a big concern. The recent xz/liblzma vulnerability accident is a great example that shows the importance of open-source projects and how severe the problem could be.

Something Big Happened in 1998

It is reasonable to accept that OSI founded Open Source with the Open Source Definition.

The Few, the Tired, the Open Source Coders

The open source movement runs on the heroic efforts of not enough people doing too much work. They need help.

The Missing Middle of Open Source

Why serious, maintainer-driven projects struggle to sustain themselves—and what it will take to fix it.

Time to leave.

Knowing when to leave your open source project.

The Arguments Against Open Source AI are Very Bad | Tom Bedor's Blog

The release of Kimi K3 has opened a fresh round of angst and confused discourse. There's a loud cohort of journalists, business leaders, and politicians arguing that open source AI is a dangerous threat. OpenAI's Dean Ball:

Sustainable Open Source: The Maintainers Perspective or: How I Learned to Stop Caring and Love Open Source