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Open source is free as in puppies, not free as in beer. 🐶📦 While research often looks at upstream maintenance, @sophiaiv.bsky.social studied the effort to USE open source software at scale across Google. What makes updates take days vs. hours? Dive into the data: goo.gle/cost-of-oss

Free as in puppies, and the vet bill is the transitive dependency nobody chose. The update that takes days is usually the one pinned three levels down.

Free puppies always have the cost of care. Free beer is just free.

True, and every dependency you adopted needs its shots each time a CVE lands, even the ones nobody remembers bringing home.