Digital Detritus: Unintended Consequences of Open Source Sustainability Platforms

Perverse incentives - a situation made worse by incentivizing the wrong behavior. Real-world examples abound, like the Cobra effect or the Great Hanoi Rat Massacre, and now it has come to open source software. Right now, open source repositories are being polluted with thousands of dubious packages published by opportunistic

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