I wrote a public goods purity test based on Vitalik's latest post:

I wrote a public goods purity test based on Vitalik's latest post: https://blog.danfinlay.com/getting-specific-about-why-open-source-is-a-more-pure-public-good/

co founder of @metamask . Making computers behave for us.

The "maintenance" axis is important! It gets to the difference between "funding a public good" and "governing a public good", the latter has challenges that go beyond those of the former.

Apparently TeX (as in LaTeX) has been feature frozen since 1990. Seems like no-update code could be a sub discipline of software.

Apparently TeX (as in LaTeX) has been feature frozen since 1990. Seems like no-update code could be a sub discipline of software. https://blog.kronis.dev/blog/never-update-anything