Keynote: Giants, Standing on the Shoulders Of
summary
Project passport: curl starts in 1996 at ~100 lines and grows to ~180,000 lines with ~1,400 authors and ~20–25 monthly committers, adding ~10 new authors per month. It ships in 20 billion installations across phones, cars (47 brands), servers and even Mars landers, uses an MIT license, and runs a static site serving 65 TB/month, 4,000 req/s. Maintainers face underfunding, burnout, noisy AI-generated bug reports and burdensome compliance requests.
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chapters (6)
- 0:00Open source and curl
- 2:29Open source foundation
- 4:36Maintaining open source
- 7:28Giants' demands
- 9:57User contributions & AI issues
- 12:04Open source future
