Curl Maintainer Discusses Challenges of Sustaining Critical Open Source Infrastructure
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Daniel Stenberg, the maintainer of the curl project, discussed the challenges of maintaining the widely-used open-source software at Open Source Summit Europe 2025. The article covers the difficulties in sustaining a critical infrastructure project that powers much of the internet, including issues with funding, contributor burnout, and the immense responsibility of maintaining software that affects billions of users worldwide.
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