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Is the FOSS Infrastructure Crumbling?

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Christine Hall
Jun 17, 2015

He points out that over the last year or so, Google has spent more money developing a set of fonts to be used in their advertising programs than openSSL has spent for the entirety of the project. No slam on Google, of course. This isn’t about how much Google is spending, it’s about how little is being allocated to projects like GIT, openSSL and bash by open source software companies who depend on the viability of these projects.
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