The Seventy-Year Favor: How the Software Industry Learned to Take and Never Learned to Pay

Open source runs the modern economy, and most of the people maintaining it are unpaid, overworked, and one bad week from walking away. From the XZ backdoor to curl&rsquo;s AI-generated bug reports, here&rsquo;s why that isn&rsquo;t an ethics problem, it&rsquo;s a supply chain risk sitting on your books right now.