Josh Bressers @joshbressers@infosec.exchange
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Is software ever done? When I started writing this I assumed the answer was yes, but by the time I finished, I'm not sure anything is ever done (not just software)

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Is software ever done?

I posted a graph on LinkedIn. It showed that of the 10 million open source projects tracked by ecosyste.ms, more than half haven’t been updated in two years. I didn’t suggest old was bad or good, but I got a number of replies about most of this software is “done” so it’s fine. We don’t have any evidence either way, I’m unwilling to make any claims about the numbers (yet, I’m working on it). This got me wondering what it would mean for software to be “done”. Which then led to the question is anything ever done? It’s a lot harder to figure this out than I had expected.

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