Sixty percent of open source maintainers consider themselves to be unpaid hobbyists, says a new survey from Tidelift, as reported by Heather Joslyn.
According to the report, 44 percent of maintainers also say they are the only person maintaining their open source project, and more than half (52%) are not aware of major new security standards, such as the NIST Secure Software Development Framework or the SLSA framework.
The “notion that developers should play a greater role in securing code runs up against the reality that most of the people maintaining that code are unpaid and short on time,” Joslyn says.
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