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Keeping the lights on for open source
Ryan sits down with Chainguard CEO Dan Lorenc to chat about how his team is keeping the foundation of the internet—open source projects—alive by forking archived but widely-used repos to provide security maintenance and dependency upgrades. They also discuss open source’s sustainability problems when it comes to funding, security, and maintainer burnout, and how trusted stewardship can reduce risk when maintainers step away.
Episode notes:
Chainguard provides secure-by-default open source artifacts for the modern software stack, keeping important open source projects maintained instead of archived.
Chainguard just announced a whole bunch of new stuff at their user conference, Assemble.
Connect with Dan on LinkedIn.
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