Open Source is one person | Open Source Security

September 10, 2025

Open source, the thing that drives the world, the thing Harvard says has an economic value of 8.8 trillion dollars (also a big number). Most of it is one person. And I can promise you not one of those single person projects have the proper amount of resources they need. If you want to talk about possible risks to your supply chain, a single maintainer that’s grossly underpaid and overworked. That’s the risk. The country they are from is irrelevant.

Source: Open Source is one person | Open Source Security

So much of the modern technology world, indeed the whole world, is dependent on open source. Here, Open Source Security investigates just how dependent the open source ecosystem is on a relatively tiny number of maintainers.