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Re:NPM Bans Terminal Ads by raesene9 on Friday August 30, 2019 @11:39AM (#20839633)
What makes you think OSS is sustainable? There have been various problems with key projects due to lack of funding (e.g. OpenSSL, GPG)

There area huge number of libraries are are becoming unmaintained due to lack of resources, which will likely cause problems down the line.

I'm not sure I'd call it a crisis, but it's definitely a problem.

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Re:NPM Bans Terminal Ads by prepend on Friday August 30, 2019 @05:37PM (#20842957)
I call is sustainable based on the evidence of tons of projects sustaining themselves. Many for decades.

There are flaws in OpenSSL and they were corrected. Sometimes projects like gpg die off. That stinks, but there are other options.

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