Eclipse joins with industry groups to secure open source
Collaborative effort aims to establish common specifications for secure software development based on existing open source best practices.
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Collaborative effort aims to establish common specifications for secure software development based on existing open source best practices.
New EU legislation recognizes the role of open source developers
Seven open source foundations are coming together to create common specifications and standards for Europe's Cyber Resilience Act (CRA), regulation
Funding for OSS projects is typically dire. In 2019, developer André Staltz collected data from Open Collective and GitHub to assess project revenues. Over 50 per cent of projects couldn't sustain their maintainers above the poverty line, while 31 per cent generated enough for a salary considered unacceptable in the industry. The sample size was small (58), but that made these results even more illuminating. It comprised relatively large projects, most with at least one full-time contributor. For each of these, there are thousands of other projects that are smaller, but still critical for at...