The Cathedral, The Bazaar and the Coffee House
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Argues for a new coffee house metaphor: organized cross-company communities that fund and coordinate maintenance of shared code. Cites concrete numbers — 99% include OSS, 82% outdated/abandoned components, 73% license issues — and prescribes forming an open source program office that hires or pays contributors, provides resources, and agrees project-quality metrics. The claim is that community-run OSPOs materially reduce supply-chain risk by keeping critical upstream projects alive.
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