Open Source is a sewer
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Provocative claim: open source is a sewer — core internet plumbing often runs on one to a few maintainers, e.g. curl, Fortran revitalization efforts, Nominatim geocoding and other tiny teams keeping routing, parsing and libraries alive. Public water and sewer projects cost millions and last a century because governments fund construction and maintenance; digital equivalents rely on single-person maintainers and small orgs, creating a precarious gap between critical services and sustainable funding for public vs digital infrastructure.
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