I am retiring from tech to live offline(openpath.quest)
711 points by PinkG | 489 comments
Blog post by Chad Whitacre announcing he is retiring from tech to live offline, saying AI took the last of the wind out of his open source efforts.
#open-source-sustainability on Hacker News
5 stories tagged open-source-sustainability, newest first.
Open Source is one person(opensourcesecurity.io)
325 points by LawnGnome | 132 comments
Blog post by Josh Bressers on Open Source Security arguing that many open source projects are maintained by a single person.
Let me pay for Firefox(discourse.mozilla.org)
673 points by csmantle | 513 comments
A Mozilla Discourse community forum post by a longtime supporter arguing that Mozilla should let users pay for Firefox to fund its development.
Ground control to Major Trial(virtualize.sh)
442 points by plam503711 | 170 comments
Blog post from Vates/XCP-ng describing a $130M aerospace company repeatedly abusing Xen Orchestra free trials instead of building from source with git pull.
2M users but no money in the bank(exercism.org)
571 points by leandot | 311 comments
Exercism founder Jeremy Walker's blog post explaining that despite reaching 2 million users, the platform has run out of money and is restructuring.