Some central notions

Common guarantors of infrastructure and digital public services

The commons as an industrial sector

The commoner as an author

Pooling of funds and management

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The commons, condition and driver of innovation

FLOSS complex business models

The risk of ecosystem exhaustion

See the presentation by Tobie Langel given during State Of Open Con 2024.

Security risk

The security risk narrowly avoided in 2024 on the XZ Utils library ([source](https://www.itpro.com/software/open-source/we-got-lucky-what-the-xz-utils-backdoor -says-about-the-strength-and-insecurities-of-open-source))

“A billion for open source”. See the presentation by Tobie Langel 2024.

The security risks (see the FOSSEPS report from the European Commission in 2022) of our digital infrastructures once again raise the question of the lack of resources allocated to the maintenance of open source projects.

Systemic risk

Examples found on the Github sponsors homepage

The economics of public services and digital commons

An engine running on reserve ?