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Why single vendor is the new proprietary (opensource.net)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

the vast majority of projects are single developer.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago

As it always is in software, it depends. Theres a lot of small, core, open source utilities maintained by a single person (the recent xz utility, as a recent example).

But major software projects (Redis, another recent example) requires far more than 1 developer