Ask HN: What critical open source software you use that is not well maintained?

3 points by mehdim ↗ HN
The goal is to make a list of OSS projects get public money and be recognized as "critical public infrastructure"

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If they're 'not maintained' there is nobody to give the 'public money' to.
Updated : not "well maintained". Or not enough maintained compared to their criticity and their global use.
Doesn't this punish maintainers who do a good job for free, by excluding them from funding?

I think you have to look one step deeper at how to deploy resources to encourage the system sustainably, not just throw money at the dead and dying.