BRUSSELS — First, the bad. I would argue that current open source practices and usage are not sustainable, or at the very least, there is a lot of room for improvement. In the current climate, there is a long litany of structural problems.
These include how burnout is becoming a real possibility, as some of the most talented developers are working for free or with little — usually no — compensation, even though that compensation would be well warranted. Burnout is a real issue. Then, at a high level, there is the problem of large tech…

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