The Bus Factor: Life for Open-Source Projects After a Developer’s Death

You’ve probably never heard of the late Jim Weirich or his software. But you’ve almost certainly used apps built on his work. Weirich helped create several key tools for Ruby, the popular programming language used to write the code for sites like Hulu, Kickstarter, Twitter, and countless others. His code was open source, meaning that …

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