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

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[-] breadsmasher@lemmy.world 6 points 8 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

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