Mike McQuaid has a message for open source maintainers at profitable companies:
"Stop asking permission to fix what your employer already depends on."
Open source software underpins critical infrastructure across the global economy, powering everything from public services and financial systems to energy grids, defence technologies and international organisations such as the United Nations.
Yet despite its centrality, much of that infrastructure is still maintained by small numbers of volunteers working in their spare time.
The maintainer behind the movement
