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16 November 2025

Thomas DepierreKorrents 16 Nov 2025

From one piece How FOSS Won and Why It Matters 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there

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The same absence of contracts and lawyers that let companies adopt open source freely is what let experts publish it, and raising the bar would break both.

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It significantly lowered the bar to production. It is how we got the whole society to run on software. If you make it harder for hobbyists maintainers, you are going to crash society.

How FOSS Won and Why It Matterssoftwaremaxims.com
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Any fix for open source that recreates the friction of a commercial supply chain is dead on arrival, because that friction is what open source escaped.

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You cannot go back. If the solution you offer recreate any of the Supply Chain framework problem, then your solution is Dead On Arrival.

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Open source won because it let companies bypass procurement, legal review and contracts, not because it was free of charge.

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FOSS solve that problem far more than it solves “we don’t want to pay”. Most corporations would be surprised by how cheap it would cost them to pay for the FOSS software they use.

How FOSS Won and Why It Matterssoftwaremaxims.com

1 April 2024

Thomas DepierreKorrents 1 Apr 2024

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Any plan for open source sustainability or security that is not built around hobbyist maintainers will achieve nothing.

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If your plans for open-source sustainability or security do not align first and foremost with this population it is not going to achieve anything.

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31 December 2022

Thomas DepierreKorrents 31 Dec 2022

From one piece I am not a supplier 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there

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An open source maintainer is not a supplier: there is no relationship with the companies using the code, so they cannot impose requirements on the person who wrote it.

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We are not suppliers. All the people writing and maintaining these projects, we are not suppliers. We do not have a business relationship with all these organisations.

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Maintainers of widely used open source software are not adequately funded, and that is a real and unsolved problem.

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Hell even worse, a lot of the libraries that underpin the fabric of what we all call the digital economy have trouble getting enough money to pay for food.

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