Securing open-source infrastructure with OSTIF

The Open Source Technology Improvement Fund (OSTIF) counters an often overlooked challenge in the open-source world: the same software projects that uphold today’s internet infrastructure are reliant on, in OSTIF’s words, a “surprisingly small group of people with a limited amount of time” for all development, testing, and maintenance.

This scarcity of contributor time in the open-source community is a well-known problem, and it renders the internet’s critical infrastructure vulnerable. To quote OSTIF, “because of the lack of a profit …

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