How to ruin an open source project: Let us count the ways | Linux Today

How to ruin an open source project: Let us count the ways

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Paul Krill
Jul 28, 2015

There are lots of ways to kill an open source project, and there’s plenty of blame to go around. Both project maintainers and users are culpable, one GitHub official believes.

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Paul Krill

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