Lack of staff and funding likely led to the recent PHP security snafu; project has only one full-time employee, but that's just the tip of the iceberg — a dreary situation caused by services running old versions with no support
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Never underestimate the power of complacency, the destroyer of internets.

70% of the world’s internet btw, but out-of-support deployments and little funding for permanent staff to manage the open-source project.

  • PorkrollPosadist [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    21 hours ago

    There are only two solutions. Government grants, or restricting Freedom 0 (The freedom to run the program as you wish, for any purpose) and embracing a non-commercial model publication model. The latter model is undesirable because it turns everything into a subsidiary of Oracle.

    These Silicon Valley companies are obscenely valuable. They should be taxed steeply.