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Luis Villa writes
about increasing demands on open-source maintainers on opensource.com.

Second, these new and increasingly specialized requirements
primarily benefit a specific class of open source users—large
enterprises. That isn’t necessarily a bad thing—big enterprises are
essential in many ways, and indeed, the risks to them deserve to be
taken seriously.

But in a world where hundreds of billions of dollars in enterprise
value have been created by open source, and where small
educational/hobby projects (and even many small companies) don’t
really benefit from these new unfunded mandates, developers will
likely focus on other things, since few of them got into open
source primarily to benefit the Fortune 500.